THE OKCHARD ORIOLE, OR HANG-NEST. 
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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 several broad 
furrows. The flowers, which are small and of a greenish colour, are suc- 
ceeded by long, flat, pendent, generally tortuous pods, of a brown colour. 
The wood is very hard, but porous and brittle. This species is distin- 
guished by its numerous, generally tripartite spines, its linear-oblong 
leaflets, and its many-seeded, compressed legumes. 
Genus Y. — QUISCALUS, Vieill. CROW-BLACKBIRD 
Bill as long as the head, or somewhat longer, nearly straight, strong, 
tapering, compressed from the base ; upper mandible with its outline slightly 
declinate, a little convex, the ridge narrow at the base and encroaching a 
little on the forehead, afterwards broad, rounded and indistinct, the sides 
convex, the edges sharp and direct, or slightly inflected, with a faint festoon 
anterior to the nostrils, the tip deflected, acute ; lower mandible with the 
angle short and rounded, the dorsal line straight, slightly deflected at the 
end, the ridge convex, the sides rounded, the edges inflected, the tip very 
acute. Nostrils basal, oval, half-closed by a membrane. Head of moderate 
size, ovate, flattened above ; neck of moderate length ; body rather slender. 
Feet of moderate length ; tarsus as long as the middle toe and claw, com- 
pressed, with eight anterior scutella ; toes rather long, with large scutella, 
the hind toe stronger, the lateral toes nearly equal, the middle toe much 
longer. Claws rather long, slightly arched, compressed, not laterally 
grooved, acute. Plumage blended, highly glossed. Wings of moderate 
length, the second and third quills longest, the first and fourth little shorter. 
Tail'long, graduated or rounded, the feathers flat or slightly concave, slightly 
emarginate, with the inner webs longer than the outer. Roof of the upper 
mandible concave, with three longitudinal ridges, of which the middle is 
enlarged at the base and prominent ; tongue slender, sagittate, concave above, 
.tapering to a thin lacerated point ; oesophagus rather wide, considerably 
dilated about the middle ; stomach of moderate size, elliptical or roundish, 
moderately muscular, the lateral muscles distinct, the epithelium dense, 
horny, slightly rugous, with two roundish grinding surfaces ; intestine of 
moderate length, rather wide ; coeca very small ; cloaca oblong. 
