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TIIE BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO. 
Adult Female. 
The female differs very little in external appearance from the male, and 
is nearly of the same dimensions. 
A male preserved in spirits measures to end of tail 12 inches, to end of 
wings 81, to end of claws 8 ; extent of wings 15i ; wing from flexure 5£ ; 
tail bi . 
The interior of the mouth presents the same appearances as that of the 
other species, its width 7 twelfths ; the tongue 8 twelfths long, of the same 
form, but black, as is the whole of the mouth. The oesophagns is 6 twelfths 
in width at the commencement, and gradually contracts to 3 twelfths ; but 
the proventriculus is 6 twelfths in breadth ; its glands smaller than in the 
other species, and forming a belt 4 inch in breadth. The stomach is similar 
to that of the Yellow-billed Cuckoo ; its tendons about 4 twelfths in length 
and 3 twelfths in breadth ; the inner surface soft, with faint longitudinal 
rugae, although quite smooth. Pylorus small, with a semilunar margin. 
The lobes of the liver are very unequal, the left 5 twelfths, the right 10 
twelfths in length. The contents of the stomach are remains of insects, with 
a few short hairs scattered here and there over its internal surface. The 
intestine is 114 inches long, very slender, its width from 2^ twelfths to 14 
twelfths ; the cloaca oblong, 5 twelfths in width ; the coeca, fig. 2. p. 522, 1 
inch 1 twelfth long, their greatest width about the middle 2J twelfths, 
narrowed toward the extremity. The trachea is 2 inches 2 twelfths long, 
moderately flattened, from 14 twelfths to 1 twelfth in breadth ; its rings 58, 
with 5 additional dimidiate rings. Bronchi of about 10 half rings. The 
muscles as in the other species. 
The Great Magnolia. 
Magnolia grandiflora, Willd ., Sp. PI, vol. ii. p. 1255. 
