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THE GREAT AMERICAN SHRIKE. 



diameter. 



twelfth; the epithelium thin, tough, reddish- 

 brown, longitudinally rugous. The pylorus 

 is very small, with a semilunar margin. The 

 intestine, efgh i j, is 12 inches long, its 

 greatest width 3 twelfths, the least 2 twelfths; 

 the coeca, i, 2 twelfths long, and scarcely ^ 

 twelfth wide, their distance from the ex- 

 tremity 1 inch; the cloaca, j, oblong; its 

 width about 6 twelfths. The stomach con- 

 tained portions of a mouse, including two 

 front teeth. 



The trachea is 2 inches 4 twelfths long, 2 

 twelfths broad at the upper part, 1-1- twelfths 

 at the lower; its rings about 55, with 2 dimi- 

 diate rings; it is considerably flattened below, 

 but roundish at the upper part. The bronchi 

 are of moderate size, with about 12 half 

 rings. The muscles are as in the Thrushes, 

 there being four pairs of inferior laryngeal, 

 of large size. 



In another individual, the tongue is 7 

 twelfths long, the mouth 8 twelfths in width; 

 the oesophagus 3 inches long, its average 

 width 3j twelfths; the intestine 12 inches 

 long. The lobes of the liver are very un- 

 equal, the left smaller. The aperture of the 

 ear of moderate size, roundish, 2 twelfths in 

 The contents of the stomach were a small bird and some insects. 



Crataegus apiifolia, Mich. PI. Amer., vol. i. p. 287. Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept., vol. i. p. 

 336. — Icosandria Pentagynia, Linn. — Rosacea, Juss. 



This species of hawthorn bears a great resemblance to that so common in 

 Europe. It grows on the banks of rivers and in damp woods in several of 

 the Southern States, and attains a height of twelve or fifteen feet. The 

 leaves are somewhat triangular in their general outline, inciso-lobate, the 

 lobes acute and deeply toothed; the flowers white, and the berries ovate or 

 oblong, of a deep red colour. 



