The back is greyish-brown while the flanks are washed with a gingery or tawny-brown colour. The melt-in-the-mouth berries are sweet and aromatic, with a pleasant gingery flavour. Becherovka is often described as having a gingery or cinnamon flavor. Colours range from a pale gingery to dark mahogany red. Both sexes have vivid, gingery green upperpart plumage. Don Gingery was born in Woodland, Pennsylvania, and moved to Clearfield, Pennsylvania, in 1892. Gingery was a member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives in 1915 and 1916. Gingery was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses.