426 WHIP-POOR-WILL. 



brownish-grey, streaked and minutely sprinkled with brownish-black. 

 Cheeks brownish-red. The quills and coverts are dark brown, spotted 

 in bars with light brown, the tips of the former mottled with light and 

 dark brown. Four middle tail-feathers like those of the back, the three 

 lateral white in their terminal half, deep brown, spotted with light brown 

 towards the base, the latter colours running along the outer web of the 

 outermost to near the tip. Throat and breast similar to the back, with 

 a transverse band of yellowish- white across the fore-neck ; the rest of the 

 under parts paler and mottled. 



Length 9 inches, extent of wings 19 ; bill along the ridge -^^, along 

 the gap 1^. 



Adult Female. Plate LXXXII. Fig. 2, 3. 



The female resembles the male in colouring, but the lateral tail-fea- 

 thers are reddish-white towards the tip only, and the band across the 

 fore-neck is pale yellowish-brown. 



Black Oak or Quercitron, 



QuEacus TiNCTOiiiA, Willd. Sp. PI. vol. iv. jj. 414. Pursh, Flor. Amer. vol. ii. 

 p. 629. Mich. Abr. Forest, de I'Amer. Sept. vol. ii. p. 110. PL 2 — Mon(£cia 



POLYANDRIA, Linn. AsiENTACEiE, JUSS. 



Leaves obovato-oblong, sinuate, pubescent beneath, their lobes 

 acuminate, obsoletely denticulate ; the cup scutellato-turbinate ; the acorn 

 globular depressed. This is one of the largest trees of the United States, 

 and attains a height from eighty to ninety feet, with a diameter of from 

 four to five. The bark is deeply cracked, and of a black colour. The 

 wood is reddish, coarse-grained, and not so much esteemed as that of 

 the White Oak, and some other species. The bark is vised for tanning, 

 as well as for dyeing wool of a yellow colour. It is generally distributed, 

 especially in the mountainous parts. 



