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Shortly afterwards (1.15 p. m.), Mr. Palmer and I arrived with 

 the specimen at my home (3356-18th Street, Washington, D. C), 

 and in one of my work rooms (on the third floor, back room) 

 facilities were immediately given him to skin the specimen. Pre- 

 vious to his commencing this operation, I made duplicate (5 X 8) 

 negatives of the head of the bird with my vertical camera, and 

 successfully developed them in the dark-room, next to where Mr. 

 Palmer had started in to make the skin. 



Apart from the legs and wings, when Mr. Palmer had carried the 

 skinning to the base of the mandibles, I made another exposure 

 with the same camera, the subject being the body of the specimen, 

 natural size, on left lateral view. A reproduction of this unusual 

 photograph is shown in Plate I of this contribution, and is valuable 

 on a number of accounts as exhibiting the size of the body; of the 

 eye; position of the trachea; the great size of the pectoralis major 

 muscle, etc. After this, the eyes and brain were consigned to 

 alcohol; and while I was developing the aforesaid plate in the dark- 

 room, Mr. Palmer completed the skinning of the specimen, having 

 set the body aside for me for anatomical description. 



Immediately after this we partook of a "late lunch" in the 

 dining-room below, and, at a little before 4 p. M., Mr. Palmer 

 repaired to his home with the skin in his possession, while I went up 

 to my laboratory on the third floor to make a preliminary survey 

 of the body, prior to making any additional photographs that 

 might be necessary for illustration. 



There was no fat present anywhere externally, where it occurs 

 in birds to a greater or less extent, between the dermal tissues and 

 the superficial muscles and other structures. I found, on the right 

 side of the abdomen, a slit-like opening, one-half a centimeter in 

 length, which led freely into the abdominal cavity, and from which 

 blood was oozing. This opening I enlarged in order to withdraw 

 the viscera for the purpose of making a photograph of them, 

 previous to proceeding with the dissection of the organs within. 

 This has been my practice for a great many years. I 



Much to my surprise, I found a quantity of blood (not clotted) 

 in the abdominal cavity, and the right lobe of the liver and the 

 intestine almost entirely broken up, as though it had been done 

 with some instrument. As to the intestine, it was missing alto- 



