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TIIE GREAT AMERICAN SHRIKE. 
twelfth ; the epithelium thin, tough, reddish- 
brown, longitudinally rugous. The pylorus 
is very small, with a semilunar margin. The 
intestine, e f g h i j, is 12 inches long, its 
greatest width 3 twelfths, the least 2 twelfths ; 
the coeca, i, 2 twelfths long, and scarcely £ 
twelfth wide, their distance from the ex- 
tremity 1 inch ; the cloaca, j, oblong ; its 
width about 6 twelfths. The stomach con- 
tained portions of a mouse, including two 
front teeth. 
The trachea is 2 inches 4 twelfths long, 2 
twelfths broad at the upper part, 1£ twelfths 
at the lower ; its rings about 55, with 2 dimi- 
diate rings ; it is considerably flattened be- 
low, but roundish at the upper part. The 
bronchi are of moderate size, with about 12 
half rings. The muscles are as in the 
Thrushes, there being four pairs of inferior 
laryngeal, of large size. 
In another individual, the tongue is 7 
twelfths long, the mouth 8 twelfths in width ; 
the oesophagus 3 inches long, its average 
width 34 twelfths ; the intestine 12 inches 
long. The lobes of the liver are very un- 
equal, the left smaller. The aperture of the 
ear of moderate size, roundish, 2 twelfths in 
diameter. The contents of the stomach were a small bird and some insects. 
Crataegus apiifolia, Mich. FI. Amer., vol. i. p. 287. Pursh, FI. Amer. Sept., 
vol. i. p. 336 . — Icosandria Pentagynia, Linn. — Rosacea, Juss. 
This species of hawthorn bears a great resemblance to that so common in 
Europe. It grows on the banks of rivers and in damp woods in several of 
the Southern States, and attains a height of twelve or fifteen feet. The 
leaves are somewhat triangular in their general outline, inciso-lobate, the 
lobes acute and deeply toothed ; the flowers white, and the berries ovate 
or oblong, of a deep red colour. 
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