. Die Vögel Amerikas: Aus Zeichnungen, die in den Vereinigten Staaten und ihren Territorien gemacht wurden. Gefleckt und akut; die Spaltlinie gerade, leicht an der Basis abgelenkt. Nasenlöcher basal, rundlich, von den Federn verdeckt. Kopf ziemlich groß, Hals kurz, Körper robust. Beine von moderatellength, schlank; tarsus länger als die Mittelzehe, anteriorly mit einer länglichen Skutella bedeckt; Zehen oben skutelliert, frei, die seitlichen fast gleich;Krallen schlank, stark zusammengedrückt, akut, leicht gewölbt, die der Hinterzehe etwas größer. Gefieder weich, eher kompakt. Flügel kurz, gebogen, gerundet, der Thirdan
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. The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories . flected and acute; the gap-line straight, slightly deflected at the base. Nostrils basal, roundish, concealed by thefeathers. Head rather large, neck short, body robust. Legs of moderatelength, slender; tarsus longer than the middle toe, covered anteriorly with afew longish scutella; toes scutellate above, free, the lateral ones nearly equal;claws slender, greatly compressed, acute, slightly arched, that of the hindtoe little larger. Plumage soft, rather compact. Wings shortish, curved, rounded, the thirdand fourth quills longest, the second nearly as long, the first little shorter.Tail rather long, emarginate. Bill dusky. Iris brown. Feet flesh-colour. Upper part of the head, anterior portion of the back, and scapulars, bright chestnut, with blackish-brown spots, the middle of each feather being of the latter colour. Sidesof the neck and rump light greyish-blue, as are the smaller wing-coverts.Quills, larger coverts and first row of smaller, dusky, the two latter tipped NT°34. P1.166.. 0t-3^ ., „</, /<* • /]«»/«/■ ^ ■ ^y<«/<wj I Ma- - : CANADA BUNTING (TREE SPARROW.) 83 with white, the former more or less margined with chestnut. Tail dusky, the feathers edged with pale ochre. A white line over the eye, and thelower parts generally of a greyish-white. Length 5^ inches, extent of wings 8; bill little more than . The female differs only in having the tints generally less intense. Inwinter both have a blackish frontlet. The Black Locust or False Acacia. Roeinia pseudacacia, Willd., Sp. PL, vol. iii- p. 1131. Pursch, Flor. Amer., vol. ii. p.487.—Diadelphia Decandria, Linn.—Leguminos^, Juss. This beautiful tree grows in the mountainous parts of the United States, from Canada to Carolina. Its wood, which is of great durability, is employ-ed for various purposes, and particularly for gates and fence-stakes. Thespecies is characterized by its spinescent stipules,
