THE PEWEE8. 



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apparatus {syrinx), or lower larynx, is situated next to the 

 lungs at the end of the windpipe, with a muscular appa- 

 ratus formed of five or six pairs of muscles, whose action 

 varies the tension of the vocal cords and narrows or widens 

 the glottides, which are elastic folds of the mucous mem- 



FlQ. 274.— The Eed Bird of Paradise. From Lutken's Zoology. 



brane. A fold of the tympanal membrane of the syrinx, 

 called the memirana seynihmaris, joroj^cts inward. 



Eepresentatives of the Clamatores are the Arcadian fly- 

 catcher, the wood pewee, the pewee or phcebe-bird, and the 

 kingbird (Pig. 271). The last, sometimes called the bee- 



