THE REDDISH EGRET. 
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P. J. Selby, Esq. of Twizel, Northumberland, and lately gave a pair to the 
Museum of the University of Edinburgh. Several specimens, which I pre- 
sented to His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, have been by him given 
to the British Museum. 
In this species a long series of elongated feathers commences at the lower 
fourth of the neck, on each side above, the intervening space being bare for 
the breadth of h inch ; they pass directly down along the back, terminating 
on the scapulae, at the distance of J inch from its extremity, gradually 
becoming more elongated, the first being 1 inch 8 twelfths in length, the 
last 14 inches. These feathers occupy a ridge 1 inch in breadth at its 
lower part, and ought more peculiarly to be named scapulars, for the 
feathers so called, which are also elongated and tapering, run across the 
head of the humerus, close to its articulation. These series are terminated 
by four large and broad feathers of the ordinary texture. The elongated 
feathers on the fore part of the neck also form two similar series on each side. 
The mouth is as in the preceding species, its width 10 twelfths ; the lower 
mandible dilatable to 1 inch 5 twelfths ; the tongue very small, 1 inch 7 
twelfths in length, tapering to *a fine point, but flattened, and very thin. 
(Esophagus 18 inches long, 2 inches wide at the commencement, 11 at the 
distance of 3 inches, after that uniformly 1 inch ; on entering the thorax it 
enlarges to 1 inch 3 twelfths ; and between it and the stomach is a contrac- 
tion, the breadth of which is 9 twelfths. The stomach is very small, of an 
irregular roundish form, 1 inch in diameter, compressed ; its tendons 8 
twelfths in breadth ; the pyloric lobe 9 twelfths in length, 7 twelfths in 
width, being much more elongated than in the other species. The proven- 
tricular glands are very small, and form a complete belt 11 inches in breadth. 
The inner surface of the stomach is soft and irregularly rugous, as in the 
other species ; that of the pyloric lobe quite smooth. Right lobe of the liver 
2 inches 2 twelfths in length, left 2 inches ; gall-bladder oblong, 1J inches 
long, and 5 twelfths in breadth. Intestine 6 feet long, forming 26 folds ; 
duodenum 2^ twelfths wide ; the smallest diameter 1 twelfth ; rectum 4§ 
inches long ; its width 3 twelfths ; cloaca globular, 1J inches in diameter ; 
coecum 2 twelfths long, and of the same width. 
Trachea 13 inches long, its breadth uniformly 3 twelfths. It is consider- 
ably flattened, which is not the case with the other species. The rings 180, 
and 4 dimidiate. Bronchial half rings 20 and 18. The muscles as in the 
other species. 
