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influence both the diameter and the length of the bronchi, 

 and the absurdity of the vulgar belief that to enable a bird 

 to " speak " the slitting of its tongue is necessary ought 



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Fig. 9 



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Fio. n. 



hereby to be manifest. The principle on which the vocal 

 organs in Birds are framed is that which prevails in wind- 

 instruments generally; the notes in the ascending scale being 

 produced by a corresponding contraction of the diameter or 

 the length of the tube, and vice versa. 



