100 Dr. Latham'j Ejay on the Trachea or Windpipes of Birds* 



verfant in anatomy ; to thofe who are, it will be unnecenary to fay 

 more, and to the uninformed I fhould hope it may prove enough. 



As far as I can learn, no particularity is obfervable in the wind- 

 pipes of the three others of this genus which frequent this king- 

 dom, viz. the Black Cock, Red Grous, and Ptarmigan. The two firft 

 I have myfelf examined ; but in refpect to the Ptarmigan^ I have not 

 as yet had an opportunity of feeing it in a recent ftate ; however, I am 

 informed that nothing particular has been noticed in refpect to the 

 parts in queftion. 



II. PENELOPE MARAIL— Marail Turkey. Tab. ix. Pig. 2. 



P. capite fubcriftato, temporibus gulaque incarnatis caruncu- 



latis. 

 Penelope Marail, Gmel. Syft. Nat. i. p. 734. — lnd. Orn. 2. p. 620. 

 Faifan verdatre de Cayenne, Le Marail, Buf. Oif. ii. p. 390. — 



PL En/. 338. 

 Marail Turkey, Gen. Syn. iv. p. 682. 



This bird inhabits the woods of Cayenne and Guiana, where it is 

 gregarious, and not unfrequently feen about houfes ; it is likewife 

 brought up tame, in the manner of our domeftic poultry. 



The trachea follows the courfe of the neck as far as the breaft, 

 where it rifes on the outfide of the flefh, being covered only by the 

 fkin and feathers, and paffes downwards fome way ; after which it 

 returns upwards, and, bending over the right clavicle or collar-bone, 

 divides into the two ufual portions, entering the cavity, and joins 

 the lungs : at the part where it makes the curve on the breaft, it 

 is kept in its place by a ftrong muicle, which is perceivable quite to 

 the bread-bone. The above is obierved in both fexes. The °- e ne- 

 ral cry is faid to be not inharmonious ; except when irritated or 

 wounded, when it is harili and loud. 



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