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SCARLET T AIT AGEE, OR BLACK-WINGED RED-BIRD. 
Bill and feet as in the male. The general colour of the upper parts is 
yellowish-green, tinged with grey, of the lower parts greenish-yellow ; the 
feathers of the wings and tail greyish-brown, margined with yellowish- 
green, the secondaries and tail-feathers narrowly tipped with greyish-white, 
the lower wing-coverts and the edges of all the quills white. 
Length to end of tail 61 inches, to end of wings of, to end of claws : 
extent of wings 101. 
The young when fledged resemble the female ; the males being, liowerer, 
distinguishable from the females by their brighter tints. 
The young male in autumn, after the first moult, has the lower parts of a 
much brighter yellow, the upper of a lighter green, but with all the feathers 
having a central black mark, those on the head oblong, on the middle of the 
back broad, on the rump linear. The wing-coverts are black ; the quills 
and tail-feathers brownish- black, margined with yellowish-green. 
Two males in my possession, shot by Dr. Trudeau, 
are remarkable for having the first rowof small coverts 
scarlet, forming a conspicuous band amidst the black 
of the wing, and the lower wing-coverts tipped and 
margined with the same. In all other respects, how- 
ever, these individuals agree with the others. 
An adult male examined. The roof of the mouth 
is concave, with a median prominent ridge and two 
more prominent lateral ridges, between which and the 
edges is a broad groove for the reception of the lower 
mandible. The tongue is 6 twelfths long, deeply 
emarginate and papillate at the base, flat above, with 
a median groove, the tip horny and pointed, but ter- 
minated by several flattened bristles or shreds. (Eso- 
phagus, a b c,2i inches long, its diameter 4 1 twelfths, 
until its entrance into the thorax, when it contracts a 
little. Proventriculus, b c, J inch long, and 8.J twelfths 
in diameter. The stomach, c d e, is a strong gizzard, 
8 twelfths long, 7 twelfths in breadth, its lateral 
muscles moderately thick ; the epithelium rugous and 
dark reddish-brown. Intestine ,/ g h, 71 inches long, 
its average diameter 21 twelfths, its narrowest part 2 
twelfths. The rectum, ij, 10 twelfths long ; the coeca, 
?, I of a twelfth long, and £ twelfth in diameter. 
The trachea is 2 inches long, its diameter 1/; 
twelfths, and nearly uniform ; the rings about 60. 
The contractor and sterno-tracheal muscles are slender ; 
and there are four pairs of inferior laryngeal. 
