THE YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT. 
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From Texas to Connecticut. Inland as far as Kentucky. Abundant. 
Migratory. 
In an adult male preserved in spirits, the roof of the mouth is nearly flat 
behind, anteriorly arched and decurved, with a prominent median ridge. 
The posterior aperture of the nares is linear, 5 twelfths long, with the 
margins papillate. The tongue is 7 twelfths long, deeply emarginate and 
papillate at the base, channelled above, tapering to a horny point, which ia 
rather blunt, but terminates in a number of slender bristles, of which there 
are also some on its edges. The oesophagus is 2 h inches long, funnel-shaped 
at the commencement, then 3 twelfths in width, and so continuing. The 
stomach is rather small, considerably compressed, roundish, 7 twelfths long, 
6 twelfths broad ; its muscles moderate and distinct, its tendons rather 
large ; its cuticular lining thin, tough, brownish-red, with six rugae on one 
side, and four on the other. Its contents are remains of insects. The 
intestine is 61 inches long, 1 h twelfths in width ; the coeca are extremely 
minute, being only 1 twelfth in length. 
The trachea is 1 inch 7 twelfths long, considerably flattened, its breadth- 
1 twelfth. The rings are 70 in number, and 2 dimidiate rings. The 
bronchi are short, of 10 half rings. There are four pairs of inferior 
laryngeal muscles, similar to those of the Shrikes. 
The Sweet Briar. 
Rosa rubiginosa ? — Icosandria Polygynia, Linn. — Rosacea, Juss. 
The sweet briar is very generally distributed in the United States. I 
have found it from Louisiana to the extremities of Nova Scotia along the 
Atlantic coast, and as far in the interior as I have travelled. The delicious 
odour of its leaves never fails to gratify the person who brushes through 
patches of it, while the delicate tints of its flowers remind one of the love- 
liness of female beauty in its purest and most blooming state. Truly a 
“ sweet home” must be the nest that is placed in an eglantine bower, and 
happy must be the bird that in the mi^st of fragrance is cheered by the 
warble of her ever loving mate. 
