GREAT MARBLED GODWIT. 



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trigonal, tapering to a point, concave above, with two series of large 

 papillae, its base emarginate and 

 papillate. The upper mandible is 

 entirely destitute of motion ; the 

 lower with a joint on each side, as 

 in the Herons. Width of mouth 4^ 

 twelfths. CEsophagus, abc,6^ inches 

 long, at the commencement | inch 

 in width, presently contracting to 

 4 twelfths, and so continuing as far 

 as the proventriculus, which is 7 

 twelfths in breadth. Stomach, cde, 

 of an oblong form, 1 inch 4 twelfths 

 in length, 9 twelfths in breadth ; its 

 lateral muscles moderately strong, 

 the tendons broad and radiated; 

 the epitheUum dense, thick, with 

 numerous longitudinal rugae. Its 

 contents are remains of small shell- 

 fish. Proventricular glands small 

 and very numerous, forming a belt 

 10 twelfths in breadth. Intestine, 

 efg hj k, 2 feet 6 inches long ; it 

 curves at first in the usual manner, 

 passes forward to above the heart, 

 then runs backward, and forms 

 seven turns ; its width from 4^ 

 twelfths to 3 twelfths. Rectum, jk, 

 very short, being only 1^ inch in 

 length ; cceca, i i, 9 twelfths in 

 length, lA twelfth in width ; the 

 cloaca, k, an oblong dilatation, 5 

 twelfths in width. 



Trachea 4| inches long, 3 twelfths in breadth, its rmgs very feeble, 

 132, with a single dimidiate ring. Bronchial half rings 18. The late- 

 ral muscles strong ; the sterno- tracheal moderate ; a single pair of slen- 

 der laryngeal muscles going to the first bronchial half ring. 



