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hydrophobia is a bilious complaint of high intensity : for the 

 gall-bladder was found quite empty, and its contents had pe- 

 netrated into every tissue. The liver, though of the usual 

 size, was, like the other viscera, of a deep yellow colour. — 

 The spleen, pancreas, and plexus Solaris, were inflamed, and 

 the nervus sympathicus presented every appearance of high 

 inflammation. The clotted blood in the aorta and vena cava 

 was yellowish black, and the serum yellow. In a few speci- 

 mens, where death had taken place before the stage of rabies 

 had been well developed, the inflammatory symptoms were 

 less striking: but in every case the effusion of all the bile had 

 taken place, and the stomach was either empty, or contained 

 only foreign substances, such as earth, stones, leather, moss, 

 and in one case even an iron nail. 



Art. XII. Observations on the Long-tailed Trogon. By Charles 

 Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Musignano.* 



Considerable interest being taken in the history of this spe- 

 cies, I have thought proper to offer some details respecting it, 

 which became known to myself before it had excited the at- 

 tention of naturalists generally. 



The Quezalt, celebrated among the Indians of Guatemala, 

 one of the most magnificent productions of nature, and wor- 

 thy of being called the bird of paradise of America, was long 

 sought after to enrich our collections, but rarely met the eye 

 of any experienced naturalist. Having heard the very ani- 

 mated description given of it by M. Gonzales, Minister of the 

 United States of central America, at Washington, M. Rebello, 

 who represented the Brazilian government in that city, while 

 I was there, succeeded, through the exertions of the former 

 gentleman, in obtaining from the Indians, two beautiful spe- 

 cimens, in the best possible state of preservation. To these 

 two gentlemen I am indebted for the little I can say of the 

 habits of this species ; and I felt particularly grateful to the 

 Brazilian diplomatist for the liberality with which he permit- 

 ted me to describe and name this lovely species, which, in 

 the year 1826, 1 was enabled to register in the catalogues of 

 science, under the name of Trogon paradiseus, Paradise Cu- 

 rucui. 



This bird, which is 13 \ inches in length from the point of 

 the bill to the extremity of the tail, measures neverthelss more 



* Communicated by the Author. Read before the Zoological Society. 



