338 THE HUDSONIAN GODWIT. 



them curve upwards. Never having kept birds of this genus alive, I am 

 unable to say whether the bill be naturally straight or not. 



The following are the dimensions of a very fine specimen selected from 

 among five presented by Dr. T. M. Brewer of Boston. Length to end of 

 tail 16^ inches, to end of wings 17f, to end of claws 18|; extent of wings 2 

 feet 5 inches; bill along the ridge 3|-, along the edge of lower mandible also 

 3-|-; wing from flexure 6 T 2 j; tail 3^; bare part of tibia ^; tarsus 2\\ hind toe 

 -£§, its claw ||; second toe 1, its claw -ff; third toe Iff, its claw -ff; fourth 

 toe 1 yf , its claw \\. 



The interior of the mouth as in the other species, its width 4f twelfths, 

 the fore part of the palate with three series of large papillse. Tongue 1-if, 

 slender, tapering to a point, trigonal. Channelled above, horny beneath. 

 (Esophagus 6f inches long, 4 twelfths wide, proventriculus 5 twelfths. 

 Stomach a muscular gizzard of an oblong form, 1 inch 3 twelfths long, 1 inch 

 in breadth; its lateral muscles strong and well marked; the epithelium dense, 

 thick, with numerous longitudinal rugse, and of a brownish-red colour. 

 Contents of the stomach, particles of quartz. Proventricular belt 9 twelfths 

 in breadth. Intestine 1 foot 8 inches long, 2f twelfths in width; rectum 3 

 twelfths wide, dilated into an ovate cloaca, 8 twelfths in width; cceca 4 

 twelfths long, \\ twelfths in width, 2f inches distant from the extremity. 



Trachea 5 inches long, much flattened, from 3 twelfths to 2 twelfths in 

 breadth; its rings feeble, 120, and a single dimidiate ring. Bronchial half 

 rings 15. Muscles as in the other species. 



Genus VI.— SCOLOPAX, Linn. SNIPE. 



Bill twice as long as the head; subulate, straight, compressed for half its 

 length, depressed toward the end; upper mandible with the dorsal line de- 

 cimate at the base, then straight, at the end slightly arched, that part being 

 considerably enlarged, the ridge convex, towards the end flattened, the sides 

 with a narrow groove extending to near the tip, the edges soft and obtuse or 

 flattened, the tip narrowed, but blunt; lower mandible with the angle ex- 

 tremely long and narrow, the sides erect, with a longitudinal groove, the 



