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colour. The individual of which the weight is here given was very fat, but 

 I have never met with any that weighed three-fourths of a pound, as de- 

 scribed by Wilson ! 



Length to end of tail 13 inches, to end of claws 14, extent of wings 22f. 



In an adult bird of this species, the tongue measures seven-twelfths of an 

 inch in length, and is sagittate at the base, with conical papilla?, of which 

 the outermost is much larger, then contracted, being deeper than broad, and 

 tapering to a very acute compressed point. Aperture of the glottis -^ long, 

 with numerous papilla? behind, the middle two largest. The oesophagus is 

 5^ inches long, of uniform diameter, measuring about T 3 g- across, and passing 

 along the right side of the neck, along with the trachea. Proventriculus 

 oblong, T 8 2 in diameter, its glandules extremely numerous, oblong, half a 

 twelfth in length. The stomach is a strong gizzard of an oblong form; an 

 inch and a twelfth long, nine-twelfths in breadth, its lateral muscles of 

 moderate thickness, the right f|, the left jf , the central tendons oblong, ^ 

 in diameter. The cuticular lining is tough, of moderate thickness, longitu- 

 dinally rugous, the grinding plates scarcely thicker than the rest. The 

 intestine is 18 inches long, its diameter generally -£§. The rectum 2\ inches 

 long; the cceca 2 T 2 2 -, very slender, their greatest diameter being only J|; the 

 cloaca globular, about \ inch in diameter. The stomach was filled with re- 

 mains of grasshoppers, of a deep red colour, with which the inner coat was 

 tinged, together with the head of a libellula. No gravel or other hard sub- 

 stances. 



The trachea moderately extended is 3f| inches long, its transverse diame- 

 ter f|, diminishing to -\\. The rings are unossified and extremely thin, 105 

 in number; the contractor or lateral muscles feeble; the inferior larynx sim- 

 ple, with a single pair of tracheali-bronchiales, and the usual sterno-tracheales; 

 the bronchi of about 15 half rings. 



This individual presented a very remarkable accumulation of fat over the 

 abdominal and pectoral muscles, and especially about the furcula. 



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