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TROCHILUS COLUBRIS. 
On dissection the heart was found to be remarka^j^^ 
large, neai’ly as big as the cranium, and the stow® 
though distended with food, uncommonly small, ® 
exceeding the globe of the eye, and scarcely more t^ ^ 
oaie-sixth part as large as the heart ; the fibres of 
last were also exceedingly strong. The brain 
large quantity, and very tfiin ; the tongue, from the 
to an extent equal with the length of the bill. 
perforated, forming- two closely attached parallel * 
cylindrical tubes ; the other extremities of the toO^j. 
corresponded exactly to those of the woodpecker, 
up the hind head, and reaching to the base of the opP 
mandible. These observations were verified lo ® 
different subjects, all of whose stomachs contained 
merits of insects, and some of them whole ones. 
