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THE HUDSONIAN GODWIT. 
them curve upwards. Never having kept birds of this genus alive, I am 
unable to say whether the bill be naturally straight or not. 
The following are the dimensions of a very fine specimen selected from 
among five presented by Dr. T. M. Brewer, of Boston. Length to end of 
tail 16f inches, to end of wings Ilf, to end of claws I 85 ; extent of wings 
2 feet 5 inches ; bill along the ridge 3J, along the edge of lower mandible 
also 3 i ; wing from flexure 6 T 2 2 5 tail 3 T 2 2 ; bare part of tibia £ ; tarsus 2i ; 
hind toe its claw J-v ; second toe 1, its claw fi ; third toe lfL, its 
claw Q ; fourth toe 1 ||, its claw 
The interior of the mouth as in the other species, its width 4 f twelfths, 
the fore part of the palate with three series of large papillte. Tongue l|g, 
slender, tapering to a point, trigonal. Channelled above, horny beneath. 
(Esophagus 6f inches long, 4 twelfths wide, proventriculus 5 twelfths. 
Stomach a muscular gizzard of an oblong form, 1 inch 3 twelfths lono-, 1 
inch in breadth ; its lateral muscles strong and well marked ; the epithe- 
lium dense, thick, with numerous longitudinal rugas, and of a brownish-rea 
colour. Contents of the stomach, particles of quartz. Proventricular belt 
9 twelfths in breadth. Intestine 1 foot 8 inches long, 2f twelfths in width ; 
rectum 3 twelfths wide, dilated into an ovate cloaca, 8 twelfths in width ; 
cceca 4 twelfths long, 14 twelfths in width, 2f inches distant from the 
extremity. 
Trachea 5 inches long, much flattened, from 3 twelfths to 2 twelfths in 
breadth ; its rings feeble, 120 , and a single dimidiate ring. Bronchial 
half rings 15. Muscles as in the other species. 
Genus VI.— SCOLOPAX, Linn. SNIPE. 
Bill twice as long as the head ; subulate, straight, compressed for half its 
length, depressed toward the end ; upper mandible with the dorsal line de- 
cimate at the base, then straight, at the end slightly arched, that part being 
considerably enlarged, the ridge convex, towards the end flattened, the sides 
with a narrow groove extending to near the tip, the edges soft and obtuse or 
flattened, the tip narrowed, but blunt ; lower mandible with the angle ex- 
tremely long and narrow, the sides erect, with a longitudinal groove, the 
