362 GOLDEN EYE. 
bottom of this labyrinth, as it has been called, the trachea 
branches off to the two lobes of the lungs; that branch which 
goes to the left lobe being three times the diameter of the right. 
The female has nothing of all this. The intestines measure five 
feet in length, and are large and thick. 
I have examined many individuals of this species, of both 
sexes and in various stages of colour, and can therefore affirm, 
with certainty, that the foregoing descriptions are correct. Eu- 
ropeans have differed greatly in their accounts of this bird, from 
finding males in the same garb as the females; and other full 
plumaged males destitute of the spot of white on the cheek; but 
all these individuals bear such evident marks of belonging to 
one peculiar species, that no judicious naturalist, with all these 
varieties before him. can long hesitate to pronounce them the 
same. 
