226 ORCHARD ORIOLE. 



Male in the second year. Plate XLII. Fig 4. 



Irregularly spotted with black, yellow, and reddish orange, on the 

 head, neck, and back ; the other parts nearly as in the adult male. 



The Honey Locust. 



Gleditschia triacanthos, Willd. Sp. PL vol. iv. p. 1097- Pursh, Flor. Amei-. 

 vol. i. p. 221. Mich. Arbr. Forest. voL iiL p. 164. PI. 10. — Poltgamia Dioecia, 

 Linn, 'Legvw.ihosm, Jttss. 



This tree, when growing in situations most favourable to it, sometimes 

 attains a height of sixty or eighty feet, and a diameter of three or four. 

 The bark is detached in large plates, and the trunk is marked with seve- 

 ral broad furrows. The flowers, which are small and of a greenish 

 colour, are succeeded by long, flat, pendent, generally tortuous pods, of 

 a brown colour. The wood is very hard, but porous and brittle. This 

 species is distinguished by its numerous, generally tripartite spines, its 

 linear-oblong leaflets, and its many-seeded, compressed legumes. 



