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CAROLINA TITMOUSE. 
Adult Female. 
The Female is similar to the male. 
Male examined. The tongue is twelfths long, emarginate and papillate 
at the base, flat above, depressed, tapering, the point 
horny, slit, with four bristly points. (Esophagus, b, 
c, d, II inches long, tapering at the commencement to 
the diameter of 2 twelfths, and then continuing nearly 
uniform, without dilatation ; the pro veil triculus, c, d,is 
not much enlarged. The stomach, d, e, is a strong <*, 
gizzard, of an oblong form or ovate, 4 twelfths long, 
3 twelfths broad, with strong lateral muscles ; its 
epithelium longitudinally rugous, and of a dark red- 
dish-brown colour. Intestine 7 4 inches long, the 
diameter of its duodenal portion, f, g, h, 2£ twelfths. 
The rectum, g , /c, is 71 twelfths long ; the coeca, j, 1 
twelfth long, and ^ twelfth in diameter. 
The trachea is 1 T % inches long, its diameter uni- 
form, £ twelfths, its rings 42. It is furnished with 
lateral or contractor muscles, sterno-tracheal, and four 
pairs of inferior laryngeal. Bronchi short, of about 
10 rings. 
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CAROLINA TITMOUSE. 
Parus carolinensis, Aud. 
PLATE CXXVII. — Male and Female. 
It was not until 1833 that I discovered the difference as to size and habits 
between this bird and the Black-cap Titmouse, which inhabits the Middle 
and Northern States, and which has been so well described by Wilson, 
Nuttall and Svvainson. Indeed, I never was struck with the difference 
of size until I reached Eastport in the State of Maine, early in May 1833, 
when one morning my friend Lieutenant Green of the United States army 
entered my room and shewed me a Titmouse which he had just procured. 
