ON CARPOPHAGA LATRANS. 431 
bird “le gésier, déji on ne peut plus musculeux par lui-méme, a sa 
surface intérieure réguliérement recouverte ... de pointes véri- 
tablement osseuses, rappelant la forme de celles qui se voient a la sur- 
face du corps de la Raia bouclée, ou Clavel, ou Clavelade. Ces pointes, 
en cone aplati, ont leur base plane de 5 millim. de diamétre, d’une 
hauteur de 5 4 6 mill., sont légérement inclinées sur elles-mémes, et 
quelquefois recourbées par la dessication, l’extrémité en étant mousse.” 
A central fibrous peduncle is also said to run through each osseous 
element. 
Phenorhina goliath, from what has been said above, therefore 
differs from Carpophaga latrans in having, the cones of the gizzard 
proportionally longer, at the same time that they are ossified (which 
necessitates the presence of vessels in the ossification, which appear 
after death as the fibrous cord) and oblique. There is, however, a 
great similarity between the two organs. 
I am informed by the Rev. S. J. Whitmee that Carpophaga pacifica 
in the Samoan Islands feeds on nutmegs, from which it is highly 
probable that in that species the gizzard-epithelium is modified in a 
manner similar to that of the Fiji or New Caledonian species. Speci- 
mens of CO. pacifica preserved would therefore be of special interest for 
the determination of this point. 
Fig. 2. 
Syrinx of Carpophaga latrans. 
With reference to the other parts of Carpophaga latrans, the 
intestine is very capacious, only nine inches long, and transversely 
sacculated from the contraction of its outer longitudinal muscular 
coat, this producing the appearance of thirty bold transverse folds on 
the mucous surface. There are no colic cxca; and, as in the genus 
Carpophaga, generally,* the gall-bladder is well developed. The 
liver-lobes are equal in size. 
* Vide “ Proceedings of the Zoological Society,” 1874, p. 258. (Supra, p. 239.) 
