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 HUDSONIAN CURLEW. 



Nu MENIUS HUDSONICUS, LaTH. 

 PLATE CCXXXVII. Vol. III. p. 283. 



Dimensions of a male : — From point of bill to end of tail 18 inches, 

 to end of wings 18, to end of claws 19x^2 ; extent of wings 33 ; bill 3x'V, 

 along the edge of lower mandible 3t'V ; bare part of tibia IJ inch ; tar- 

 sus 2^ inches, hind toe 5 twelfths, its claw 3 twelfths ; second toe 1J|, 

 its claw H ; third toe li|, its claw /^ ; fom-th toe 1||, its claw 2f twelfths; 

 wing from flexure 9f ; tail 3^^. 



The heart and liver are very large, as in the other species, the right 

 lobe of the latter passes under and beyond the stomach, and is 3 inches 

 in length, the left lobe 1 inch 9 twelfths. The mouth is in all respects 

 as in the preceding species, as is the tongue, which is 1 inch long. The 

 oesophagus is 7 inches long, at the upper part 8 twelfths in width, after- 

 wards uniformly 5 twelfths ; the proventriculus large, 8 twelfths in 

 width. The stomach is of moderate size, roundish, 1^ inch long, 1 inch 

 5 twelfths in breadth ; its muscles of moderate thickness ; the epithe- 

 lium thick, horny, with two broad longitudinal plates on each side. Its 

 contents are small crabs. Intestine 30 inches long, its width in the duo- 

 denal portion 4 twelfths, and nearly the same throughout, but at the 

 distance of 10 inches from the end enlarging to 6 twelfths. Coeca 2^ 

 inches from the extremity, 1 inch 9 twelfths long, 1^ twelfth in width, 

 with the tip slender as in the other species. 



Trachea 5^ inches long, 3^ twelfths broad at the top, 2 twelfths at 

 the lower part, very little flattened ; the rings firm, 122, with 2 dimi- 

 diate rings. Bronchi moderately wide, of about 18 half rings. Late- 

 ral muscles of moderate strength ; the sterno-tracheales come off at the 

 distance of 5 twelfths from the extremity ; there is a very slender slip 

 of muscle on each side going to the first bronchial ring. 



