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Rh with dull white, the three outer feathers white on the greater part of their inner web.

Length $4 3/4$, extent of wings 8; bill along the ridge $1/3$, along the gap $7/12$; tarsus $2/3$.

Adult Female. Plate LXXXVIII. Fig. 2.

The female resembles the male in external appearance.

, Willd. Sp. Pl. vol. iv. p. 464. Pursh, Flor. Amer. vol. ii. p. 621. Mich. Arbr. Forest, de l'Amer. Sept. vol. ii. p. 133. Pl. 1.—, Linn., Juss.

Leaves ovate, acuminate, doubly serrated, the veins hairy beneath, the petiole smooth. The female catkins pedunculate, pendent. This tree is most abundant in the Northern States, where it sometimes attains a height of from seventy to eighty feet, and a diameter of three feet.