Fringilla Bahamensis: The Bahama Finch.
It weighs fourteen Penny Weight. The Head is black; except a white
Line which runs from the Bill over the Eve, and another under the
Eye. The Throat is black, except a yellow Spot, close under the
Bill. The Breast is Orange-colour'd ; the Belly white; the Upper-part
of the Neck and the Rump, of a dusky red; the Back black; the Wings
and Tail brown, with a mixture of white; the Legs and Feet, Lead-Colour.
These Birds are frequent on many of the Bahama Islands.
Arbor Guajaci latiore folio, Bignoniae flore caeruleo, fructu
duro in duas partes desiliente, seminibus alatis imbricatim positis:
The broad leaf'd Guaicum, with blue Flowers.
This is a Tree of a Middle-size. The leaves are winged, with many
small pointed alternate Lobes. In May there proceeds from
the ends of its Branches several spreading Foot-stalks bearing blue
Flowers, in Form not unlike those of the Fox-glove, which are succeeded
by large flat roundish Seed-Vessels, or Pods, commonly two Inches
over, containing many, small flat winged Seeds. This Tree grows
on several of the Bahama Islands, particularly near the Town
of Nasaw, on the Island of Providence.