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WILSON’S SNIPE. 
larger barred with brownish-red and black. Tail-feathers brownish-black 
at the base, with a broad subterminal band of brownish-red on the outer web 
of the two middle, and on both webs of the rest, excepting the outer on , 
each side, which is barred with brownish-black and white, the black bars 
five ; the tips of all white. Anterior part of breast like the neck, the rest 
white ; abdomen and lower tail-coverts greyish-yellow, barred with 
brownish-black, as are the sides; scapulars white, barred with greyish- 
black ; lower wing-coverts similarly mottled. 
Length to end of tail 10* inches, to end of claw 114; extent of wings 17; 
wing from flexure 5 ; tail 21 ; bill along the back 2/2 ; along the edge of 
lower mandible 2 / 2 ; tarsus, lyv, middle toe 11, its claw Weight 3 oz. 
Adult Female. 
The female resembles the male, but is rather larger. 
Autumnal plumage. 
The young in autumn resemble the old birds, but have the dark markings 
of a browner tint, the light more dingy, and the colours in general less pure. 
In an adult male, the mouth is excessively narrow, its breadth being only 
2 twelfths ; on the palate are three longitudinal ridges of strong reversed 
papilla, terminating anteriorly in a single ridge of similar papilla. Both 
mandibles are moderately concave, with very thick sloping edges. The 
tongue is 1 inch 8 twelfths long, very slender, iuduplicate, so as to be deeply 
channelled in its whole length, emarginate and papillate at the base, tapering 
to a narrow, horny point. The oesophagus is 9 inches 9 twelfths long, 2i 
twelfths in width; the proventriculus 2>h twelfths in breadth. The stomach 
of moderate size, roundish; its lateral muscles large, the inferior prominent; 
its length 9 twelfths, its breadth the same; the epithelium thin, dense, with 
numerous longitudinal rug®, and of a reddish colour. The right lobe of the 
liver is 1 inch 8 twelfths, the other only 10 twelfths in length ; gall-bladder 
ovate, 4 twelfths long, 2 i twelfths in breadth. Intestine 14-J- inches, its 
greatest width 1J twelfths, the least 1 twelfth ; the coeca 7 twelfths long, § 
twelfth in breadth, 1$ inches from the extremity; the cloaca ovate, 6 twelfths 
in width. The intestine curves at first in the usual manner, at the distance 
of 1 inch 4 % twelfths, then advances toward the right lobe of the liver, pro- 
ceeds backward, forms a single convolution, and terminates in the rectum 
over the stomach, making altogether only 5 turns. 
Trachea 2 inches 10 twelfths long, from II twelfths to 1£ twelfths in 
breadth, flattened, like that of every other species of the family; the rings 
very narrow, completely unossified, 108 in number, with 2 additional dimi- 
diate rings. Bronchial half rings 15. Muscles as usual in this family. 
END OF THE FIFTH VOLUME. 
