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THE RED- WINGED STARLING. 
with its margin papillate. The lower mandible is deeply concave. The 
tongue is 9 twelfths long, higher than broad, sagittate and papillate at the 
base, grooved above, tapering to a horny, flattened, slightly emarginate tip. 
The oesophagus, abode, is 34 inches long, forming a sac, b c, the width of 
which at the commencement is 74 twelfths, soon after 44 twelfths, toward 
the lower part of the neck 54 twelfths, but on entering the thorax contract- 
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ing to 34 twelfths ; the proventriculus, d e, 44 twelfths in width. The 
stomach, e f g, is broadly elliptical, 9 twelfths long, 74 twelfths wide, its 
lateral muscles well developed ; the epithelium thin, but dense, and of a 
reddish-brown colour. The contents of the stomach are remains of coleop- 
terous insects and seeds. The duodenum, g h i, curves in the usual manner 
at the distance of 14 inches ; the entire length of the intestine is 10 inches, 
its width from 2 twelfths to 14 twelfths ; the coeca 2 twelfths long, £ twelfth 
wide, 1 inch distant from the extremity ; the rectum gradually dilates into 
an oblong cloaca, 5 twelfths in width. 
The Red Maple or Swamp Maple. 
Acer rubrum, Willd., Sp. PL, vol. iv. p. 984. Pursh , Flor. Amer., vol. i. p. 266. Mich. 
Arbr. Forest, de l’Amer. Sept., vol. ii. p. 210, pi. 14. — Octandria Mono gyni a, Zi?m. 
— AcerinjE, Jass. 
Genus IV.— ICTERUS, Briss. HANG-NEST. 
Bill a little shorter than the head, conical, very slightly decurved, com- 
pressed, tapering to a very attenuated point ; upper mandible with the dorsal 
line almost straight, being very slightly convex, the ridge indistinct, narrow- 
ed at the base ; the sides convex, the edges overlapping, the tip extremely 
sharp ; gap-line ascending at the base, afterwards direct ; lower mandible 
with the angle long and of moderate width, the dorsal line and that of the 
crura slightly concave, the sides erect at the base, convex towards the end, 
the edges slightly inflected, the tip extremely slender. Nostrils basal, 
elliptical, with a small operculum. Head ovate, of moderate size ; neck 
