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APPENDIX. 
FURNARIUS CUNICULARIUS. G. R. Gray. (Male.) 
Tongue, trachea, and oesophagus, as in Uppucerthia. Proventriculus longer, and slightly contracted 
at its entrance into the gizzard, which is large, flattened, and muscular, more rounded than in 
Opetiorhynchus, lined with a rugose hardened coat, and filled with small seeds, and the remains 
of insects ; intestines of small diameter, and furnished with two rudimentary caeca. 
inches 
Length of oesophagus, including proventriculus If 
of gizzard § 
Breadth of ditto § 
inches 
Length from gizzard to caeca 5 
caeca to cloaca 1^ 
Sternum of nearly equal breadth, both posteriorly and anteriorly, but much narrowed in the 
middle, the portion to which the ribs are attached much elongated beyond their junction ; 
posterior margin furnished with two deep fissures, slightly narrowed at their exit ; keel deep, 
slightly rounded on its inferior edge, and much scolloped out anteriorly; pelvis broad and short, 
the os pubis projecting far backwards; the ischium terminating posteriorly in an acute process. 
Os furcatum thin, much arched, furnished with a flattened reflexed process at its junction with the 
sternum ; the points of the rami bent forwards at their junction with the coracoids. 
Coracoids of moderate size' and length, inserted deeply into the sternum ; scapula of moderate size, 
broader near the extremity. 
lines 
Length of sternum 11 
Breadth anteriorly 6^ 
posteriorly 8J 
Depth of keel 4| 
Length of pelvis 12 
Width anteriorly 4| 
posteriorly 11 
Length from occiput to point of bill 19 
Breadth of cranium 7^ 
Length of coracoids 8 
No. of cervical vertebrae 12 
dorsal ditto 7 
sacral ditto 10 
caudal ditto 7 
Total 36 
No. of true ribs 5 
false ditto . : 2-1 
Total 8 
UPPUCERTHIA DUMETORIA. Geoff, fr D' Orb. (Female.) 
Tongue short, compared with the length of the bill, pointed, armed with a few spines at the base ; 
trachea of moderate size, acted upon by one pair of sterno-tracheal muscles, which go off to 
the sternum, about ^ of an inch above the inferior larynx ; from the upper ring of the bronchi® 
on each side, a process proceeds upwards to the point from which the muscles diverge, to 
which point only the rings of the trachea are continued, two spaces therefore, one on the 
anterior, the other on the posterior side of the trachea, immediately above the bronchi®, are 
left devoid of osseous matter, being bounded laterally by the process above mentioned, interiorly 
by the upper rings of the bronchi®, and superiorly by the lower ring of the trachea, which is 
slightly enlarged ; oesophagus small, slightly dilated a little above the proventriculus, which 
is of moderate size, and not contracted before entering the gizzard ; gizzard large, oval, very 
muscular, inner coat hardened, deeply furrowed longitudinally, and filled with the remains of 
insects; intestinal canal of moderate size, without c®ca; rectum very slightly enlarged ; 
liver bilobed. 
inches inches 
Length of oesophagus, including proventiculus 2 Breadth of ditto J 
of gizzard f | Length of intestinal canal 10 
