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Rh brownish-yellow, fading into white on the abdomen and under tail-coverts. Upper parts dull greyish-olive, on the head tinged with red. Inner webs of the quills deep brown.

Length 5¼ inches, extent of wings 6½; bill along the ridge 5/12; along the gap ⅔; tarsus 11/12;

Adult Female. Plate XXIII. Fig. 2.

The female has the upper parts lighter, the under parts tinged with reddish-brown, and wants the two bands on the head, which is of a pale brownish red colour.

, Willd. Sp. PI. vol. ii. p. 849. Pursh, Flor. Amer. vol. ii. p. 448.—, Linn., Juss.

Leaves ovate, acuminate, serrate; flowers with twelve stamina; the fruit rhomboidal. It grows in shady woods, generally near rivers.

, Wild. Sp. PI. vol, i. p. 1847. Pursh, Flor. Amer. vol. i. p. 201.—, Linn., Juss.

Glabrous; the branches spreading; the leaves roundish; crenato-serrate; the petioles smooth; the cymes sessile; the fruit round. The flowers are white, the berries dark purplish-blue.