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colour. The individual of which the weight is here given was very fat, 
but I have never met with any that weighed three-fourths of a pound, as 
described by Wilson ! 
Length to end of tail 13 inches, to end of claws 14, extent of wings 22f. 
In an adult bird of this species, the tongue measures seven-twelfths of an 
inch in length, and is sagittate at the base, with conical papillae, of which 
the outermost is much larger, then contracted, being deeper than broad, and 
tapering to a very acute compressed point. Aperture of the glottis T 2 o long, 
with numerous papillae behind, the middle two largest. The oesophagus is 
inches long, of uniform diameter, measuring about T 3 2 across, and passing 
along the right side of the neck, along with the trachea. Proventriculus 
oblong, x 8 2 in diameter, its glandules extremely numerous, oblong, half a 
twelfth in length. The stomach is a strong gizzard of an oblong form ; an 
inch and a twelfth long, nine twelfths in breadth, its lateral muscles of 
moderate thickness, the right f e, the left 3 |-, the central tendons oblong, T 3 2 
in diameter. The cuticular lining is tough, of moderate thickness, longitu- 
dinally rugous, the grinding plates scarcely thicker than the rest. The 
intestine is 18 inches long, its diameter generally fir. The rectum 2^ inches 
long ; the coeca 2^, very slender, their greatest diameter being only f A ; 
the cloaca globular, about £ inch in diameter. The stomach was filled with 
remains of grasshoppers, of a deep red colour, with which the inner coat 
was tinged, together with the head of a libellula. No gravel or other hard 
substances. 
The trachea moderately extended is 3}f inches long, its transverse diame- 
ter fA, diminishing to The rings are unossified and extremely thin, 105 
in number ; the contractor or lateral muscles feeble ; the inferior larynx 
simple, with a single pair of tracheali-bronchiales, and the usual sterno- 
tracheales ; the bronchi of about 15 half rings. 
This individual presented a very remarkable accumulation of fat over 
the abdominal and pectoral muscles, and especially about the furcula. 
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