. The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories . , the lateral band sometimes white, anteriorlytinged with yellow; sides of the head and neck greyish-white, flanks andlower tail-coverts reddish-white, streaked with black; fore neck and breastrich yellow, the former with a large crescent of black. Female smaller, butotherwise similar. Male, llfV, 161 In an adult male preserved in spirits, the roof of the mouth has a medianridge anteriorly, with two ridges on the palate, which is convex and ascend-ing; the posterior aperture of the nares linear, margined w
. The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories . , the lateral band sometimes white, anteriorlytinged with yellow; sides of the head and neck greyish-white, flanks andlower tail-coverts reddish-white, streaked with black; fore neck and breastrich yellow, the former with a large crescent of black. Female smaller, butotherwise similar. Male, llfV, 161 In an adult male preserved in spirits, the roof of the mouth has a medianridge anteriorly, with two ridges on the palate, which is convex and ascend-ing; the posterior aperture of the nares linear, margined with large papillae,and 8 twelfths long. The tongue is slender, 10 twelfths long, deeply sagit-tate and papillate at the base, concave above, horny beneath, with a mediangroove, thin-edged, lacerated toward the tip, which is slit to the depth of 1twelfth. It resembles the tongue of the Quiscali, Starlings, Crows, andThrushes. The oesophagus, a b c, is 4^ inches long, very narrow, its averagewidth along the neck being 21- twelfths; on entering the thorax it enlarges 76 THE MEADOW to 3 twelfths; the proventriculus, b c,is 5 twelfths in breadth, its glandularbelt 6 twelfths. The stomach, c d e,is a very strong muscular gizzard,placed obliquely, of an elliptical form,11 twelfths in length, 9^ twelfths inbreadth. The proventricular glandsare large, nearly globular, ^ twelfthin diameter. The muscular coat ofthe stomach is rather thin, the thick-ness of the lateral muscles being 2twelfths; the epithelium dense, tough,dark red, with three longitudinalrugae on each side. The contents ofthe stomach are remains of insects,larvae, and especially legs of grass-hoppers. The intestine, efg h ij,is of moderate length and width, theformer being 121 inches, the latteraveraging 2^ twelfths. The duode-num, ef, curves in the usual mannerat the distance of If inches, and is 3twelfths wide. The coeca, i, comeoff at the distance of H inches fromthe extremity, and are 3 twelfths inlength, 1 twelf
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