336 LONG-LEGGED SANDPIPER. 
from flexure 5}; tail 277; bill along the ridge 1,4, along the edge of 
lower mandible 144; bare part of tibia 1; tarsus 134; hind toe and 
claw #4; middle toe #2, its claw ?4. 
The roof of the mouth is flat, with three rows of papilla. The 
tongue is 1 inch 5 twelfths long, emarginate and papillate at the base, 
very slender, concave above, tapering to a point. The cesophagus is 
4 inches long, very narrow, its diameter 2 twelfths. The proventri- 
culus is oblong, 7 twelfths in length, 33 twelfths in diameter. The 
stomach is a strong gizzard of a roundish form, compressed, 8 twelfths 
long, 73 twelfths broad ; its lateral muscles large, its epithelium very 
dense, thick, longitudinally rugous, and of a reddish-brown colour. 
The intestine is 123 inches long, its anterior part 23 twelfths in diame- 
ter, the hind part 13 twelfth. The rectum is 14 inch long; the ceeca 
11 twelfths long, 1 twelfth in diameter, obtuse. 
The trachea is 3 inches long, ‘slender, its diameter at the upper 
part 1% twelfths, gradually diminishing to the lower part, where it is 
1 twelfth. The rings, about 110 in number, are slender and unossi- 
fied, the two last divided. The bronchi have about 15 halfrings. The 
contractor muscles are thin, the sterno-tracheal slender ; and there is a 
pair of inferior laryngeal muscles going to the first bronchial rings. 
In another individual, the intestine was 13} inches long, the rec- 
tum 14 inch, the cceca 1 inch. 
The contents of the gizzard in both were fragments of shells, small 
black seeds, and much sand and gravel. 
