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for“having the first row of small coverts scarlet, forming a conspicu- 
ous band amidst the black of the wing, and the lower wing-coverts 
tipped and margined with the same. In all other respects, however, 
these ‘individuals“agree with the others. 
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An adult male examined. The roof of the mouth is concave, with 
a median prominent ridge and two more prominent lateral ridges, be- 
tween which and the edges is a broad groove for 
the reception of the lower mandible. The tongue 
is 6 twelfths long, deeply emarginate and papillate 
at the base, flat above, with a median groove, the 
tip horny and pointed, but terminated by several 
flattened bristles or shreds. Esophagus, a 6 c, 24 
inches long, its diameter 44 twelfths, until its en- 
trance into the thorax, when it contracts a little. 
Proventriculus, 6c, } inch long, and 34 twelfths in 
diameter. The stomach, cde, is a strong gizzard, 
8 twelfths long, 7 twelfths in breadth, its iateral 
muscles moderately thick ; the epithelium rugous 
and dark reddish-brown. Intestine, fg h, 74 inches 
long, its average diameter 24 twelfths, its narrowest 
part 2 twelfths. The rectum <j, 10 twelfths long; 
the coeca, 7, ? of a twelfth long, and 3 twelfth in 
diameter. 
The trachea is 2 inches long, its diameter 12 
twelfths, and nearly uniform ; the rings about 60. 
The contractor and sterno-tracheal muscles are 
slender ; and there are four pairs of inferior laryn- 
geal. 
In a female the intestine is 71 inches long. 
The contents of the stomach in both were re- 
mains of insects and seeds. 
The digestive organs of this bird, and probably of all the 'Tanagers 
of the same group, are thus not essentially different from those of the 
Passerine tribe, including Finches, Buntings, &c. The cesophagus has 
a more elongated dilatation than in most of the species of that tribe, 
of which, however, the Corn Bunting of Europe is very similar in this 
respect. 
