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THE KILDEEE PLOVER. 
tips and those of most of the primaries white, as are those of the primary and 
secondary coverts. Rump and upper tail-coverts bright yellowish-red. Tail- 
feathers of the same colour at the base, the middle feathers brown, all with 
a broad subterminal band of black, the tips white, those of the four middle 
feathers pale reddish ; the outer feather on each side white, with three black 
bands on the inner web. 
Length to end of tail 10 inches, to end of wings 9, to end of claws 94 , 
extent of wings 20 ; wing from flexure 61 ; tail 4 ; bill along the back If 
along the edge “I; tarsus 1 T V ; middle toe 14, its claw T \. Weight 53 oz 
Adult Female in summer. 
The female resembles the male. 
The mouth is exceedingly narrow, its width being only 2 twelfths. The 
palate has two longitudinal ridges, and anteriorly a few very prominent pa- 
pillae. The tongue 7 twelfths long, very narrow, deeply channelled above, 
with involute edges. The oesophagus is 3 inch.es 10 twelfths long, 2 twelfths 
in width ; the proventriculus 54 twelfths. The stomach is broadly elliptical, 
10 twelfths long, 85 twelfths in breadth ; its lateral muscles very large ; the 
epithelium thick, with prominent longitudinal rugae. The proventricular 
glands form a belt 64 twelfths in breadth. The intestine is 144 inches long, 
its width 2 twelfths. Coeca 1 inch 9 twelfths long, their greatest width 14 
twelfths ; their distance from the extremity 14 inches. The trachea is 2 
inches 9 twelfths long, from 2 twelfths to 14 twelfths in breadth, flattened ; 
the rings feeble, about 90 in number. Bronchi of moderate width and about 
15 half rings. The lateral muscles thin, the sterno-tracheal slender. There 
is a single pair of inferior laryngeal muscles, or a prolongation of the lateral 
muscles, going to the first bronchial ring. The individual examined is a 
male. 
