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cesses, to each of which is attached a slender muscle (figs. 

 6, 7, b) extending backwards to the glottis, and these muscles 

 by their contraction extend and raise the scoop-like tip. 

 Beneath the articulation of this appendage is another small 

 muscle (fig. 7, c) attached to its distal portion at one 

 extremity and at the other to the hyoid. This by its anta- 

 gonism to the former muscles (6) bends the extremity down- 

 wards and backwards, so that while the points of the bill 

 press the scales from the cone, the tongue exserted by its 

 own genio-hyoid muscle directs the scoop under the seed, 

 which being thereby dislodged is conveyed to the mouth. 



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