RECORDS VOLUME XI, JAN., 191 9. 



Notes on Some Remarkable Birds. 



By Charles J. Maynard. 



(continued FKOM PA.GE 164 VOL. X.) 



turn, fig. 11, e; at C is a side view of it base 

 upward, the free end being widest. The en- 

 tire structure is supported by a Y-shaped 

 bone which extends foward from the first 

 tracheal ring, fig. 1, A, b, as seen from be- 

 low, m being the first trache- 

 al ring and e the lower side 

 of the septum, the interven- 

 ing portion of the trachea 

 being removed; B shows a 

 section across the lower por- 

 tion of the larynx, b being 

 the base of the Y-shaped 

 bone. The trachea is flat- 

 tened at the larynx, where ^ 

 it is about .75 wide, fig. 10, 

 M, but becomes gradually 

 rounder and narrower as it 



descends, and is without di- Gannet: tor expla- 

 nation see page 5. 



