328 RUSTY GRAKLE. 



Young bird fuUy fledged. Plate CLVII. Fig. 3, 3. 



Bill and feet brownish-black. Iris pale yellow. Head and neck Ught 

 brown, the rest of the upper parts brownish-black, edged with light red- 

 dish-brown, the rump tinged with grey. A band over the eye, and the 

 fore part and sides of the neck and breast pale yellowish-brown, sides tinged 

 with brown, under tail-coverts dusky. 



The Black Haw. 



Prunus nigra, Pursh, Flor. Amer. Sept. vol. i. p. 331 — Icosandria Monogynia, 

 Linn. Rosace^e, Juks. 



Leaves deciduous, ovate, acuminate, unequally serrate, smooth on 

 both sides ; vunbels sessile, solitary, few-flowered. 



This species of Prunus, which is tolerably abundant in Louisiana, 

 the only State in which I have observed it, grows along the borders of 

 the forest, and often attains a height of thirty or more feet. Its leaves 

 fall at a very early period, but its fruits, which are pleasant to the taste, 

 remain until after the first frosts, or until devoured by birds, opossums, 

 squirrels, or racoons. 



