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FLORIDA CORMORANT. 



Phalacrocorax floridanus. 



PLATE CCLII. Vol,. III. p. 387. 



Male. The mouth presents the same appearance as that of the 

 last species ; the posterior aperture of the nares is 11 twelfths in length ; 

 the tongue 6 twelfths long, and exactly of the same form. (Esophagus 

 14 inches long ; its width at the commencement 2^ inches, along the 

 neck 1 inch 8 twelfths ; within the thorax it forms a sac of enormous 

 size, 2 inches 2 twelfths in breadth, of which the stomach, as in the 

 other species, seems to form the fundus. The stomach is 2 inches in 

 diameter, in all respects similar to that of the last species, with a pylo- 

 ric lobe ^ inch in diameter. The proventricidar glands form a belt 2 

 inches 2 twelfths in breadth, but at one place entirely separated, with 

 an interval of I inch, in which there are no glands, and at another for 

 i inch, being thus disposed in two circular masses, as in Phalacrocorax 

 Carlo. The intestine curves precisely as in the species above described, 

 at first ascending for j inch, and forming 15 curves ; its length is 5 feet 

 2 inches, its width from 4 twelfths to 3 twelfths ; the cceca 4| twelfths 

 long, 3 twelfths wide, 5 inches distant from the extremity ; the cloaca 

 globular, 1 inch 5 twelfths wide. 



Trachea 10 inches long, from 5 twelfths to 4 twelfths in breadth, 

 slightly flattened ; the rings moderately firm, 148, with 2 additional 

 half rings. Bronchi with 20 half rings. Cleido-tracheal muscles, lateral 

 muscles, sterno-tracheal, and a single pair of inferior laryngeal. 



The lobes of the liver are extremely unequal, the right 3 inches 2 

 twelfths, the left 2 inches in length; gall-bladder oblong, 1 inch 4 

 twelfths long, 4 twelfths in breadth. 



A young bird taken from the nest, 11| inches long, has its mouth 

 10 twelfths wide, but with the lower mandible dilatable to the extent 

 of 1^ inch. The length of the oesophagus and stomach is 8 inches ; 

 these organs are of enormous width, that of the former being 1 inch 2 

 twelfths, and the stomach and proventriculus together form a vast sac 

 3^ inches in length, and 2 inches in diameter when inflated. The pro- 



