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THE ALBATROSS. 



of ail epiglottis ; and the size, tliougli small, is 

 saffid^l for th© protection of tfett poryon of tl»e 

 rima glottidis wM«h eaimot be closed in 

 manner xiBual in birds by the apposition of its 

 margins. With a peculiar stnictiire of tlio glottis 

 there exists an apparatus equally peculiar iu the 

 class, as a pi&?isioB ag^mt the ineonvenienee 

 which might otherwise result from the deviation 

 fipom the normal structure.* 



•Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, June 

 mth, 1833. 



