362 GOLDEN EYE. 



bottom of this labyrinth, as it has been called, the trachea 

 branches off to the two lobes of the lungs; that branch which 

 goes to the left lobe being three times the diameter of the riu;hl. 

 The female has nothing of all this. The intestines measure five 

 feet in length, and are large and thick. 



I have examined many individuals of this species, of both 

 sexes and in various stages of colour, and can therefore affirm, 

 with certainty, that the foregoing descriptions are correct. Eu- 

 ropeans have differed greatly in their accounts of this bird, from 

 finding males in the same garb as the females; and other full 

 plumaged males destitute of the spot of white on the cheek; but 

 all these individuals bear such evident marks of belonging to 

 one peculiar species, that no judicious naturalist, with all these 

 varieties before him, can long hesitate to pronounce them the 

 same. 



