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CAROLINA TITMOUSE. 



Adult Female. 



The Female is similar to the male. 



Male examined. The tongue is A\ twelfths long, emarginate and papillate 

 at the base, flat above, depressed, tapering, the point 

 horny, slit, with four bristly points. (Esophagus, b, 

 c, d, 1^- inches long, tapering at the commencement to 

 the diameter of 2 twelfths, and then continuing nearly 

 uniform, without dilatation; the proventriculus, c, d, is 

 not much enlarged. The stomach, d, e, is a strong 

 gizzard, of an oblong form or ovate, 4 twelfths long, 

 3 twelfths broad, with strong lateral muscles; its 

 epithelium longitudinally rugous, and of a dark red- 

 dish-brown colour. Intestine 7i inches long, the 

 diameter of its duodenal portion,/) g, h, 2\ twelfths. 

 The rectum, g, k, is *l\ twelfths long; the cceca,/, 1 

 twelfth long, and % twelfth in diameter. 



The trachea is lyg- inches long, its diameter uni- 

 form, J twelfths, its rings 42. It is furnished with 

 lateral or contractor muscles, sterno-tracheal, and four 

 pairs of inferior laryngeal. Bronchi short, of about 

 10 rings. 



CAROLINA TITMOUSE. 



Parus carolinensis, Jiud. 



PLATE CXXVIL— Male and Female. 



It was not until 1S33 that I discovered the difference as to size and habits 

 between this bird and the Black-cap Titmouse, which inhabits the Middle 

 and Northern States, and which has been so well described by Wilson, 

 Nuttall and Swainson. Indeed, I never was struck with the difference 

 of size until I reached Eastport in the State of Maine, early in May 1833, 

 when one morning my friend Lieutenant Green of the United States army 

 entered my room and shewed me a Titmouse which he had just procured. 



