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L«fo?e its divarication into the lungs, was inflexible, not 

 extensile, like the rest, and rather wider in diameter. The 

 gullet had an expansion before entering the stomach, which 

 last was remarkably strong, the two great grinding muscles 

 being nearly five inches in diameter. The stomach was 

 filled with fragments of the roots of reeds, and fine sand 

 The intestines measured eight feet in length, and were no* 

 remarkably thick. The liver was small. 



ILLUSTRATIVE ANECDOTES. 



Latham observes that this species is very numerous at 

 Hudson's Bay, that they visit Severn river in May, and 

 stay a fortnight, but go farther north to breed j they return 

 to Severn Fort the beginning of September, and stay till 

 the middle of October, when they depart for the south, and 

 are observed to be attended by their young, in flocks in- 

 numerable. They seem to occupy also the western side of 

 America, as they were seen at Aoonalashka, as well as Kain- 

 tschatka. White Brant, with black tips to their wings, were 

 also shot by Captains Lewis and Clark's exploring party, near 

 the mouth of the Columbia river, which were probably the 

 same as the present species. Mr. Pennant says, " They are 

 taken by the Siberians in nets, under which they are decoyed 

 by a person covered with a white skin, and crawling on all 

 fours ; when, others driving them, these stupid birds, mistak- 

 ing him for their leader, f'^Uow him, when they are entangle i 

 in the nets, or led into a kind of pond made for tlie pur 

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