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ZOOLOGY. 



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Kg. 453.— Topography of a birri. 1. forehead (frons) ; 2, lore ; 3, clrcumoralar 

 region ; 4, crown (vertex) ; 5, eye ; n, hind head (occipvl) ; 7, nape (nucha) ; 8, hind 

 neck (ceryix) ; 9. eide of necic ; 10, interscapular region; 11, rfor^/m or b.ick proper, 

 including 10; 13, ThOtcRum, or upper part of body proper, including 10. 11 and 13; 

 13, rump (uropyqium)\ 14. upper tail coverts; i.5, tail; 16, under tail coverts; 17, 

 tarsus ; 18, abdomen ; 19. 'hind toe (fiaUuor:) ; 30. (;rafitr<Eum, including 18 and 24 ; 21. 

 outer or fourth toe ; 22. middle or third loe ; 23, side of the body ; 34. breast (i)cc<««); 

 25, primaries ; 26, [secondaries ; 27. tertiaries; Nos. 35. 36, 27 are flU remiges; 28, 

 primary coverts ; 29. alula, or bastard wing ; 30. greater coverts ; 31, median coverts ; 

 32, lesser coverts : 33. the "throat," including 34, 37 and 38; 34, juffuturn, or lower 

 throat ; 35, auriculars ; 36, malar region ; 37, gula or middle throat ; .38, mentum or 

 chin ; 39, angle of commissure, or corner of mouth ; 40, ramus of under man- 

 dible ; 41. side of under maudible ; 42, gonys; 43, apex, or tip of bill ; 44, tomia. or 

 cutting edges of the bill ; 45, c/lmen, or rid^e of upper mandible, corresponding to 

 gonys ; 46, side of upper mandible ; 47, nostril ; 48, passers across the bill a little in 

 iront of its face.— From Coues's Key. 



