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MR. F. E. BEDDARD ON THE 



[Apr. 15, 



rhamphihs gryphus. I exhibit drawings of the windpipe (text- 

 figs. 29, 30), which are quite accurate, and illustrate the various 

 features to which I desire to direct attention. It will be seen 



Text-fig. 29. 



--M 



Lower end of windpipe of male Sarcorhamphus gryphus, front view. 

 M, extrinsic muscles ; T, muscular tag at end of bronchus. 



that each bronchus ends in the male bird, as it does in the 

 female, in an entii'ely membi-anous section of considei-able length 

 in proportion to the entiie bionchus. The proportions are rightly 



