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MONOGRAPHS OF NOUTU AMUBICAN UODEHTIA. 



cartilaginous, — tlie only cartilage that entirely surrounds the wind-pipe. It is 

 infundibuliform, the diameter of the ring being considerably greater above 

 than below ; and it is not so high in front as behind, where it bears the ary- 

 tenoids. These are well developed, entirely cartilaginous, and of an irregular 

 shape, impossible to describe concisely; when in mutual apposition, they 

 reach nearly half way ncioss the top of the cricoid ring. 



The ttachea is flattened, especially behind, and diminishes somewhat in 

 calibre as it passes down, ending in the bronchia with a simple bifurcation. 

 None of the tracheal rings are cartilaginous posteriorly, the membranous por- 

 tion being nearly the semi-circumference. These half-rings are about thirty 

 in number; of tlie similar bronchial half-rings, there are five or six to the 

 first bifurcation. The tracheal cartilages are not regular, either in position, 

 size, or shape ; some are not directly transverse to the axis of the tube ; some 

 are thicker than other::; and some are partially divided into two on this or 

 that side. The tube is about two inches long. The left bronchus is rather 

 longer than the right. 



The lungx appear to be very small in comparison with the size of the ani- 

 mal. In the collapsed state observed, and with the lobes placed as nearly as 

 possible in the natural position, the lefl lung was less than one and a half inches 

 long ; the right was a little more. The two differ remarkably in their lobation 

 (at least ii. the specimen examined). The lefl lung consists of only two lobes, 

 the lower much larger than the upper ; they are almost completely sepcrated, 

 only connected l)y a thin band of parenchymatous tissue ; each receives a fork 

 of the bronchus. The right lung is n:uch more complicoted, being divided 

 into four very di Mnct lobes, each of which receives its own branch of the 

 I)ronchu8 ; as in the case of the lort lung, the parenchymatous connection of 

 the lobes is slight. The third lobe counting from above is the principal one, 

 representing more than a moiety of the lung. Above and to the front of this 

 main lobe, overlying it much as the auricles of a heart rest upon the ventricles, 

 are two small narrow and thin lobes, side by side, of about equal size and 

 similar shape. The fourth lobe lies on the inner back side of the main one, 

 and eqtmls it in length ; but it is very thin and " straggling ", having about the 

 same capacity as one of the small upper lobes. This lobe has but the slightest 

 parenchymatous connection with the main lobe, and is furthermore itself 

 lol)ulate<l. 



Digestive organs. — Within the apparent edges of the lips short fine 



