442 WINTER WREN. 
In a male shot at Charleston in January, the upper mandible has a 
prominent median line beneath, the palate is flat, the mouth 23 twelfths 
in breadth. ‘The tongue is 5 twelfths long, emarginate and papillate 
at the base, slender, flattened, very narrow, tapering to a lacerated 
point. The cesophagus, a,,c, is 14 inch long, of uniform diameter, 
being 14 twelfths in breadth. The stomach, d, ¢, is oblong, 5 twelfths 
in length, 34 twelfths in breadth, its muscles of 
moderate strength, the lower not distinct from the is rg 
right; the cuticular lining longitudinally rugous, 2 
and of a dark brown colour. The intestine, f, g, h, 5 
is 8 inches long, ‘the duodenum 2 twelfths in dia- E 
meter ; the cceca 1 twelfth long, 14 twelfth broad . EY 
the neck 9 twelfths long ; the cloaca large, globular, 
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3 twelfths in diameter. 
The trachea is 1 inch 3 twelfths long, of nearly 
uniform diameter, 14 twelfths broad; the lateral f 
muscles strong, sterno-tracheal, and four pairs of 
inferior laryngeal muscles ; the rings ossified. 
