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GARRULUS. JAY. 



Bill shorter than the head, straight, strong, about as deep 

 as broad at the base, compressed towards the end. Upper 

 mandible with the dorsal outline declinate and slightly arched, 

 the ridge narrow, the sides sloping and convex, the edges di- 

 rect and sharp, with a notch or sinus close to the tip, which 

 is rather acute and declinate. Lower mandible wath the angle 

 medial, of moderate width, rounded, the dorsal outline ascend- 

 ing, convex, the edges sharp and slightly inflected, the tip 

 rather acute. The gape-line nearly straight. 



Mouth of moderate width ; upper mandible concave within, 

 generally with five or seven prominent lines ; lower mandible 

 deeply concave, with a prominent central line ; palate concave ; 

 aperture of the posterior nares edged with small papillae di- 

 rected baclavards ; aperture of the glottis similarly margined, 

 and having numerous papillae behind. Tongue, PL IX, Fig. 

 4, «, sagittate, oblong, flat above, horny and thin at the edges, 

 the tip cleft and lacerated. (Esophagus, h, c, d^ wide, nearly 

 uniform in diameter, slightly contracted on entering the thorax. 

 Proventriculus, c?, bulbiform, its glandules oblong, oblique. 

 Stomach /, ^, oblong, the muscular coat not very thick, the 

 inner transversely rugous. Intestine, h^ ^, j^ k, I, w, of mode- 

 rate length, a little wider at the upper part ; coeca. Fig. 5, c, c?, 

 very small, cylindrical ; rectum, «, b, enlarged, very short, with 

 an oblong dilatation at the end. 



Nostrils round, in the fore part of the short nasal groove, 

 and covered by the reversed shortish feathers. Eyes of mode- 

 rate size ; eyelids feathered, having a narrow crenate bare 



