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in breadth ; its lateral muscles moderately strong, the tendons broad and 
radiated; the epithelium dense, thick, with numerous longitudinal rug®. Its 
contents are remains of small shell-fish. Proventricular glands small and 
very numerous, forming a belt 10 twelfths in breadth. Intestine, e fg hj /c, 
2 feet 6 inches long; it curves at first in the usual manner, passes forward 
to above the heart, then runs backward, and forms seven turns ; its width 
from 4£ twelfths to 3 twelfths. Rectum, j k, very short, being only 11 
inches in length ; coeca, i i, 9 twelfths in length, lh twelfths in width ; the 
cloaca, k, an oblong dilatation, 5 twelfths in width. 
Trachea 41 inches long, 3 twelfths in breadth, its rings very feeble, 132, 
with a single dimidiate ring. Bronchial half rings 18. The lateral muscles 
strong ; the sterno-tracheal moderate ; a single pair of slender laryngeal 
muscles going to the first bronchial half ring. 
THE HUDSONIAN GODWIT. 
Limosa hudsonica, Lath. 
PLATE CCOXLIX. — Adult Male and Young Female. 
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This species, which is of rare occurrence in any part of the United States, 
is scarcely ever found farther south along the coast than the State of Mary- 
land. I had never seen it in the flesh, until I went to Boston in 1832, when 
I found specimens of it in the market late in September. An old gunner in 
my employ brought me eight or ten in the course of a month, but they were 
all young birds. From one of them my son drew the figure in the plate. 
While I was at Pictou Professor MacCulloch presented me with a pair 
of adult birds in beautiful plumage. When we were on our way towards 
Labrador, the fishermen and inhabitants of the Magdeleine Islands, who 
gave the name of Curlews to the Godwits, assured me that this species 
breeds there in some marshes at the extremity of the principal island, and 
that they were in the habit of killing them as soon as they were able to 
fly, when they were considered excellent food. We saw none, ho.wever, 
on our voyage farther north, and in Labrador and Newfoundland nobody 
seemed to know them. 
