64 PURPLE GRAKLE. 



The tongue is slender, 9 twelfths long, emarginate and papillate at the base, 

 grooved above, horny toward the end, slightly lacerated, and slit at the tip. 

 The oesophagus, a b c d, is 4| inches long, 5 twelfths in width at the com- 

 mencement; then for the length of nearly two inches dilated to 1\ twelfths; 

 on entering the thorax contracted to 4 twelfths. The stomach, d e, is of 

 moderate size, round, a little compressed, moderately muscular, the right 

 muscle 3 twelfths, the left 2\ twelfths thick; the epithelium dense, horny, 

 slightly rugous, with two roundish slightly concave grinding surfaces. The 

 oesophagus contains two grains of maize, and the stomach is distended with 

 fragments of the same, together with portions of husks and grains of sand. 

 The intestine, fg h ij k, is of moderate length and rather wide, being 16 

 inches long, and from 4 twelfths to 2\ twelfths wide; the duodenum, fg h, 

 curves in the usual manner, returning at the distance of two inches; the 

 coeca, i, which come off at the distance of 1 J inches from the extremity, are 

 l-£ inches long, but only ^ twelfth in width; the rectum gradually enlarges 

 into an oblong cloaca,y, about 5 twelfths in width. 



The trachea is 3 inches long, moderately flattened, 1^ twelfths in breadth, 

 its rings firm, and about 60 in number, with 2 additional dimidiate rings. 

 The lateral muscles are slender, as are the sterno-tracheal; there are four 

 pairs of large inferior laryngeal muscles. The bronchi are of moderate size, 

 with about 15 half rings. 



The Maize or Indian Corn. 



Zea Mays, Willd., Sp. PL, vol. iv. p. 200. Pitrsh, Flor. Americ, p. 46. — Moncecia 

 Triandria, Linn. — Graminea:, Juss. 



