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Plate VI. 



Fig. 4. Tongue, hyoid, trachea, heart, liver and digestive organs removed 

 from their cavities and photographed on anterior or ventral view. The 

 crop (cr.) has been turned around to occupy the posterior aspect of the 

 windpipe or trachea, in order that the latter may be seen for its entire 

 length. The cardiac extremities of the great vessels at the base of the heart 

 can easily be recognized. The left lobe of the liver (11.) and the gizzard 

 are in the normal relations to each other. 



Fig. 5. Same structures and organs as seen in Fig. 4. The tongue and 

 pharynx are seen upon dorsal view; the crop and oesophagus are twisted 

 about the trachea in order to show the reverse side of the first-mentioned 

 organ. The lower part of the trachea (lower larynx) and bronchial tubes 

 are seen. Heart and great vessels are shown upon posterior aspect. The 

 left lobe of the liver is thrown forwards in order to give a complete view of 

 the gizzard, which latter has been bisected and turned so as to show its 

 dorsal surface. 



Fig. 6. Interior aspect of the anterior moiety of the gizzard exhibiting 

 the muscular portion, with the central cavity filled with small pebbles. 



Fig. 7. Anterior view of the lower part of the trachea; the lower larynx, 

 and the bronchial tubes. About twice natural size, and drawn by the author 

 direct from the specimen. 



TEN HOURS AT FERNANDO NORONHA. 



A Day's Collecting on the South Georgia Expedition of 



the Brooklyn Museum and the American Museum of 



Natural History. 



by robert cushman murphy. 



On October 15, 1912, the good whaling brig Daisy of New Bed- 

 ford was running merrily across the trade wind just south of the 

 equator. All day long, boobies and other passing sea birds Jold 

 us that we were nearing land, and at nine in the evening we made 

 out the twinkling, revolving light of an island lying under the bright 

 quarter moon. We hauled aback our square sails and lay to for 

 the night. 



