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FRUTICICOLA. BUSHCHAT. 



Bill short, straight, slender, depressed at the base, compress- 

 ed towards the end : upper mandible with its dorsal outline 

 declinate and nearly straight, the ridge narrow at the base on 

 account of the breadth of the nasal membrane, and continuing 

 rather sharp to the tip, which is deflected, narrow, and rather 

 acute, with a small notch, the sides sloping at the base, con- 

 vex towards the end, the edges sharp and overlapping ; lower 

 mandible straight, the angle of moderate length, rather nar- 

 row, and somewhat rounded, the back broad and flattened 

 at the base, narrow and convex towards the end, the sides of 

 the crura nearly flat and sloping outwards, towards the end 

 convex, the edges sharp and inflected, the tip narrowed to a 

 blunt point ; the gape-line straight. 



The mouth rather wide ; both mandibles concave within, 

 with a median prominent line ; the palate nearly flat, with 

 two longitudinal prominent lines ; the posterior aperture of 

 the nares oblongo-linear, edged behind with small papillge. 

 Tongue short, sagittate, rather narrow, at the base emargi- 

 nate and papillate, two of the papillse much larger, concave 

 above, horny towards the end, bristly on the edges, the tip 

 slit. Aperture of the glottis with two rows and a large pad 

 of papilloe behind. The oesophagus is of moderate width, 

 nearly uniform in diameter ; the proventriculus oblong, with 

 short oblong glandules. The stomach of moderate size, round- 

 ish-elliptical, compressed, its lateral muscles rather thick, the 

 lower not very distinct, the tendons rather large, the cuticu- 

 lar lining tough and longitudinally rugous. The intestine is 

 of moderate length and of nearly uniform width ; the coeca 

 very small ; the rectum dilated towards the end. 



Nostrils small, elliptical, direct, pervious, in the fore part of 

 the large and broad nasal membrane, which is anteriorly bare. 

 Eyes of moderate size ; the eyelids feathered towards the mar- 



