re Mr. T. C. Eyton’s Notes on Birds. 
vures, alternating with luteous ones placed on the folds between 
the nervures, these preceded by a submarginal series of black 
spots ; there is.a luteous spot on the disco-cellular nervule, and a 
faint one of the same hue between the median and radial nervures. 
Head varied with white and black; antennz black, spotted 
with white. 3 
Thorax and abdomen yellowish white. 
In the collection of the British Museum. 
Alhed to P. Calypso, but easily distinguished by its bright 
luteous upper wings and the beautiful pearly whiteness of the 
under surface of the posterior. 
VI.—Notes on Birds. By T. C. Eyton, Esq., F.L.S. 
No. V. 
{ With a Plate. ] 
[ Continued from vol. viii. p. 47.] 
Aramus scolopaceus, Bon. (male). 
Tue cesophagus at its upper extremity is when inflated half an inch 
in diameter, but is dilated near its middle into an oval crop fully 
two inches in diameter and three in length; there is also another 
slight enlargement immediately above the proventriculus: the total 
length of the cesophagus from the epiglottis to the proventriculus is 
thirteen inches. The proventriculus is one inch in diameter and 
nearly two in length when inflated; its upper portion is fleshy and 
thickened, but the coats become thinner as it becomes more expanded ; 
it is contracted immediately above the stomach. The stomach is 
moderately muscular and slightly oval. ‘The epithelium is hardened 
and rugose towards its lower portion. The greatest length of the 
gizzard is two inches, and its greatest diameter is one and a half inch. 
The small intestine is a quarter of an inch in diameter, and uni- 
form from the gizzard to the rectum, and two feet three inches in 
length. ‘The ceca are of moderate size, and consist of sacs three- 
quarters of an inch in diameter for two-thirds of their length and 
contracted ‘to a quarter of an inch before their entrance into the 
rectum ; they are slightly larger near the middle than at their upper 
extremity. ‘The right cecum measures three inches in length, the 
left two and a half inches. The rectum is seven and a half inches 
in length, and very slightly larger than the small intestine. The 
cloaca is of moderate size, measuring half an inch in diameter, and 
with the coats not much thickened. 
The trachea is of small diameter for the size of the bird, and 
largest at its upper and lower extremities ; at the distance of three 
inches above the bronchie, it is convoluted towards the right side 
on itself, the form of which will be best explained by the Plate. The 
bony rings become much stronger and more massive above the 
bronchi, and have a larger interval of membrane between them; they 
