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Identifier: birdsofamericafr01audu (find matches)
Title: The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories
Year: 1840 (1840s)
Authors: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 Bowen, John T., ca. 1801-1856?, lithographer
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: New York : Published by J.J. Audubon Philadelphia : J.B. Chevalier
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domen and lower tail-coverts white. Female with the ur^per parts yellow-ish-brown; the head grey; the quills greyish-brown; the tail darker; the partsyellow which in the male are bright orange; the rest of the lower parts white,tinged with yellow. Young similar to the female, more grey above, and withless yellow beneath. Male, 5, 6^. Female. Throughout the United States. Abundant. Migratory. The Virginian Hornbeam, or Iron-wood Tree.Ostrya virginica, Willd., Sp. PL, vol. iv. p. 469. Pursh, Flor. Amer., vol. ii. p. 623.— MoNffiCIA PoLYANDRIA, Linn. AMENTACE^, JuSS. This species is distinguished by its ovato-oblong leaves, which are some-what cordate at the base, unequally serrated and acuminate, and its twin,ovate, acute cones. It is a small tree, attaining a height of from twenty tothirty feet, and a diameter of about one foot. The wood is white, and closegrained. The common name in America is iron-wood, which it receives onaccount of the great hardness of the wood. 1ST? 14. PI. 69.
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