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ORNITHOLOGY. 
something in their bills. The stomach, a muscular bag, filled the whole anterior part of the abdomen , 
and occasioned considerable protrusion of its forepart. It contained a compact mass of feathers, 
bones, and portions of the skins of birds, and the whole leg and foot of a duck , the external surface of 
which was unaltered by the dissolving power of the gastric juice. The internal surface was thinly 
covered with a yellowish viscid matter. A short intestinal canal conducted to the rectum , from which 
two cccca were given otf four inches long. They expanded into a wide sac near the base, and were 
filled with a dark green and rather consistent fluid. 
“The irides were a light golden yellow." 
Otus brachyotus. 
Strix brachyotus. Phil. Trans, vol. 62. p. 384. sp. 2 . — Wils., Am. Orn. vol. 4. 
p. 64. pi. 33./. 3 — Pr. of Musignano, Syn. p. 27. sp. 29. 
Short-eared Owl. Penn., Arct. Zool. vol. 2. p. 229. sp. 116. 
La Chouette. Buff., PI. Enl. 438. 
There appears little difference between the characters of this bird, and of our European 
species, with the exception of its colours being much deeper and inclining to rufous. The same 
difference may be also observed in the following species, and I have in fact traced it in birds 
from Madeira, Ceylon, Bengal, New Holland, South America and Cuba. All these differ in some 
slight degree in their markings, but accord in their colour being generally more suffused than in the 
European specimens. Whether they are all distinct species, or merely varieties, can be determined 
only by an examination of numerous specimens from each locality, and an accurate comparison with 
each other. 
Strix flammea. Linn., Syst. Nat. vol. 1. p. 133. sp. 8. 
White Owl. Penn., Brit. Zool. vol. 1. sp. 67. 
L’Effraye, ou la Fresaye. Buff., PI. Enl. 440. 
Order II. INSESSORES. 
Tribe Fissirostres. 
Fam. HALCYONID^E. 
Alcedo AlcyoN. Linn., Syst. Nat. vol. 1. p. 180. sp. 7 . — Wils., Am. Orn. vol. 3. 
p. 59. pi. 23. /. 1. — Pr. of Musignano, Syn. p. 48. sp. 47. 
Belted Kingsfisher. Penn., Arct. Zool. vol. 2. p. 279. sp. 169. 
Martin-pecheur de la Louisiane. Buff., PI. Enl. 715. 
huppe de St. Doiningue, Id., Ih. 593. 
This species was met with at San Francisco. 
Tribe Dentirostres. 
Fam. MUSCICAPID^E. 
Muscicapa coronata. Lath., Ind. Orn. p. 486. sp. 81. 
Round-crested Flycatcher. Id., Gen. Hist, vol • 6. p. 246. sp. 145. 
Le Rubin, ou Gobc-mouche rouge huppe. Buff., PI. Enl. 675. f 1. 
