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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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orehead ochre-yellow, with a few faint dusky spots on the lower part of the fore neck.This species differs from the last chiefly in being of a more elongated form,in having the bristles much longer, the upper parts of a much lighter tint; inwanting the black band down the side ofthe neck, and the yellow band overthe eye; the bill is straighter and more pointed, and the outer primaries areedged with white. Male, 5\. Louisiana. Only one specimen ever found. The Great Magnolia. Magnolia grandiflora, TVilld. Sp. PI., vol. ii. p. 1255. Pursch, Flor. Amer., vol. ii. p.380. Mich. Arbr. Forest, de lAmer. Sept., vol. iii. p. 71. PL i.—Polyandria polygy-NIA, Linn.—Magnoli.£, Juss. The magnificent tree, of which a twig, with a cone of ripe fruit, is repre-sented in the plate, attains a height of a hundred feet or even more. Thebright red bodies are the seeds, suspended by a filament for some time afterthe capsules have burst. The trunk is often very straight, from two to four NP15 PI. 74 :\
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Sis Vul act rtmtrt/a •/*>/a ■ /...•/- 21 Dmwi.i. l.ilhPnillrd M.-l!-. .1 I Bovrn IW.-„t THE KENTUCKY FLYCATCHING-WARBLER. J9 feet in diameter at the base, with a greyish smooth bark. The leaves whichremain during the winter are stiff and leathery, smooth, elliptical, tapering atthe base. The flowers are white, and seven or eight inches in diameter. Itis known by the name of large magnolia, big laurel and bay-tree, and oc-curs abundantly in some parts of Carolina, Georgia, the Floridas and Loui-siana. THE KENTUCKY FLYCATCHING-WARBLER. -Myiodioctes formosus, Wils.PLATE LXXIV Male and Female. This beautiful species is the most common and abundant that visits theState of Louisiana and those States situated on the borders of the Mississippi.In Kentucky it is much less common, and in the State of Ohio scarcer still.It is an extremely active and lively bird. It is found in all the low groundsand damp places near water-courses, and generally among the tall rank weedsand low bushes

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