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VIRGINIAN PARTRIDGE. 



In a male preserved in spirits, the roof of the mouth is covered poste- 

 riorly with large flattened papillae, and has a very prominent median ridge 

 anteriorly ; its width is 5^ twelfths. The tongue is triangular, fleshy, 

 emarginate and papillate at the base, with one of the papillae on each side 

 very large. The oesophagus, Fig. 1, a e, which has at first a width of 4 

 twelfths, forms an ovate oblique crop, hc,\ inch 2 twelfths in its great- 



Fig. 1. 



Fig. 2. 



a. 



est length, and 9 twelfths in breadth, which, together with the oeso 

 phagus, lies on the right side of the neck ; it then passes obliquely to the 

 left side, forms a proventriculus, d e, of an oblong form, 5 twelfths i 



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