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PINE GROSBEAK. 42] 
cireumvolutions, and above the stomach terminates in the rectum, 
which is 11 twelfths long. The cceca are 14 twelfth in length and 
1 twelfth in diameter. The entire length of the intestine from the 
pylorus to the anus is 314 inches (in another male 31); its greatest 
breadth in the duodenum 23 twelfths, gradually contracting to 1; 
twelfth. Fig. 2. represents the convoluted appearance of the intes- 
tine. ‘The esophagus ac; the gizzard d, turned forwards; the duo- 
denum, ¢ /; the rest of the intestine, g 4; the ceca, i; the rectum, 7 7, 
which is much dilated at the end. 
Vhe trachea is 2 inches 2 twelfths long, of uniform diameter, 14 
twelfth broad, with about 60 rings; its muscles like those of all the 
other species of the Passerine or Fringillide. 
In a female, the cesophagus is 2 inches 10 twelfths long; the in- 
testine 31 inches long. 
In all these individuals and several others, the stomach contained 
a great quantity of particles of white quartz, with remains of seeds ; 
and in the cesophagus of one was an oat seed entire. 
Although this bird is in its habits very similar to the Crossbills, 
and feeds on the same sort of food, it differs from them in the form 
and extent of its crop, in having the gizzard much larger, and the in- 
testines more than double the length, in proportion to the size of the 
bird. 
