588 LONG-BILLED CURLEW. 



lateral muscles very strong, the left 9 twelfths thick, the right 1 inch ; 

 the lower muscle very prominent ; the tendons large and strong ; the 

 epithelium very thick, with broad longitudinal rugae. The proventricular 

 glands are oblong, forming a belt 9 twelfths in breadth. The contents 

 of the stomach are remains of Crustacea. The intestine, /^^(;^, which is 

 39 i inches long, 5 twelfths in width in the duodenal portion, fgh, 3 

 twelfths toward the middle, curves in the usual manner at the distance 

 6f 3^ inches, passes forward as far as the proventriculus, then turns 

 backward to near the cloaca along the right side, again forward, back- 

 ward, forward, backward, and lastly forward to above the tip of the 

 heart, where it ends in the rectum, and sends off the cceca ; the rectum is 

 5 twelfths long, opening by a very small aperture into a globular cloaca, 

 jh, 1 inch in diameter. The coeca, Im, which come oflF at the distance 

 of 3 inches from the extremity, are 4 inches long, \\ twelfth in width 

 for 1^ inch, then from 1 twelfth to 3 twelfths, being enlarged and con- 

 tracted at intervals, the tip for \ inch only | twelfth in width. The 

 lobes of the liver are very unequal ; the left lies beneath the proven- 

 triculus and the anterior part of the gizzard, under the lower edge of 

 which it sends a long thin process ; the right lobe is very much larger, 

 narrow, and passes under the whole length of the stomach. 



Trachea 6 inches 2 twelfths long, a little flattened, from 3^ twelfths 

 to 2\ twelfths in breadth ; its rings firm, 120 in number, with 2 dimi- 

 diate rings. Bronchi rather wide, of 18 half rings. Lateral muscles 

 strong ; a single pair of inferior laryngeal muscles going to the last half 

 ring. 



Dimensions of two male individuals, killed on 26th April 1837, at 

 Galveston : 



Length to end of tail, 2^\, 20| inches, to end of wings the same ; to 

 end of claws 24, 29i ; extent of wings 36|, 38^ ; weight 1 lb. 1 oz., 

 1 lb. 9 oz. 



