30 BARTRAMIAN SANDPIPER. 
inner coat was tinged, together with the head of a Libellula. No gra-_ 
vel or other hard substances. 
The trachea moderately extended is 3}$ inches long, its transverse 
diameter 24, diminishing to 33. The rings are unossified and ex- 
tremely thin, 105 in number; the contractor or lateral muscles feeble ; 
the inferior larynx simple, with a single pair of tracheali-bronchiales, 
and the usual sterno-tracheales ; the bronchi of about 15 half-rings. 
This individual presented a very remarkable accumulation of fat 
over the abdominal and pectoral muscles, and especially about the 
furcula. 
