FERRUGINOUS THRUSH. 107 



Adult Female. Plate CXVI. Fig. 2. 2. 



The female resembles the male, the bars on the wings being narrower, 

 and the spots on the breast lighter. The dimensions are nearly the 

 same. 



The Black Jack Oak. 



QuERCUs NIGRA, Willd. Sp. PL voL iv. p. 442. Pursh, Flor. Amer. Sept. vol. ii. 



p. 629. 

 QuERCUs FERRDGiNEA, Mich. Avbr. Forest, vol. i. p. 92, pi. 18. Mon(ecia poly- 



ANDRiA, Linn. AmektacejE, Juss. 



Leaves coriaceous, dilated at the end and three-lobed, when young 

 mucronate, smooth above, covered with a rust-Uke powder beneath, the 

 cupule turbinate, its scales obtuse and scarious, the acorn shortly ovate. 

 This tree forms the principal growth of the open barrens of Kentucky, 

 and is also met with in all our Southern Districts. It is of small height, 

 and extremely crooked in its growth, so as to be of little service, except- 

 ing as fire-wood ; but it bears abundantly, producing fine raast for hogs. 



The Black Snake. 



This Snake is possessed of great activity, chmbs with ease over bushes 

 and along the trunks of trees, and glides so swiftly over the ground as 

 easily to elude pursuit. It feeds on birds, eggs, frogs, and small quad- 

 rupeds, and evinces great antipathy towards all other species of Serpent, 

 with most of which, although destitute of poison fangs, it fights on the least 

 provocation. It occurs abundantly from Louisiana to Connecticut, but 

 I have not observed it in Maine or the British provinces. 



