BRENT GOOSE. 27 



An adult female procured by Dr Thomas M. Brewer of Boston. 



The roof of the mouth is concave, with a median row of short pa- 

 pillae, two lateral series of flattened laminas, and some irregularly scat- 

 tered intermediate prominences, the lower mandible more concave. 

 The tongue is fleshy, with the base papillate, the sides parallel and 

 furnished with recurved papillae, the tip rounded and thin, the entire 

 length 1 inch 5 twelfths. The oesophagus, a, which is 13 inches long, 

 is exceedingly slender, its diameter when contracted not being greater 

 than that of the windpipe, or about 4 twelfths, but it is capable of be- 

 ing dilated to 6 twelfths ; its inner coat thrown into prominent longi- 

 tudinal rugae. The proventriculus, a b, is enlarged to the breadth of 

 11 twelfths, its glandules simple, cylindrical, 2 twelfths long. The 

 stomach, c d ef, is a very highly developed muscular gizzard, placed 



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