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^^XI, —Observations on the Habits, Appear-' 
ance, and Anatomical Structure of the Bird 
named The Trumpeter, Psopbia crepitans of 
LiNN^us, Agami of Cuvier. 
By Thomas Stewart Trail, M. D. F. K. S. E. 
M.W.S. &c. 
{Read l^th November 18^5.) 
A LIVING specimen of this singular bird having been sent 
from Demerara by my friend Charles S. Tajcker Jiti dor, 
Esq., a zealous and accomplished naturalist, I had a favour- 
able opportunity, in the summer of 1824, of noticing its 
habits. An accident which caused its death soon enabled 
me to examine its internal structure; and I detected so 
remarkable a peculiarity in the formation of its bronchial 
tubes, that I laid an account of it before the Literary and 
Philosophical Society of Liverpool, at the first meeting in 
October. Unwilling, however, to publish an account of 
this remarkable structure from a single dissection, I wrote 
to a young friend in Demerara to procure living specimens 
of the bird, and two were lately sent to me from that colo- 
ny. Of these one died on the passage, and was immediate- 
ly put into a small cask with rum ; the other lived until 
the ship arrived;, but died on that da}^, and was examined. 
