. The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories . cross. There is a very narrow oblong salivary glandin the usual place, and opening by three ducts. The oesophagus is 2 inches1 twelfth long, 2^ twelfths wide, without dilatation. The stomach is rathersmall, 6 twelfths long, 5 twelfths broad, considerably compressed, the lateralmuscles distinct and of moderate size, the lower very thin; the epitheliumthin, tough, longitudinally rugous, brownish-red. The stomach filled withinsects. The intestine is 6h inches long, from If twelfths to 1 twelfth inwidth; the c
. The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories . cross. There is a very narrow oblong salivary glandin the usual place, and opening by three ducts. The oesophagus is 2 inches1 twelfth long, 2^ twelfths wide, without dilatation. The stomach is rathersmall, 6 twelfths long, 5 twelfths broad, considerably compressed, the lateralmuscles distinct and of moderate size, the lower very thin; the epitheliumthin, tough, longitudinally rugous, brownish-red. The stomach filled withinsects. The intestine is 6h inches long, from If twelfths to 1 twelfth inwidth; the coeca 1^ twelfths long, ^ twelfth broad, 1 inch distant from theextremity; the rectum gradually dilates into an ovate cloaca. The trachea is 1 inch 7 twelfths long, from 1 twelfth to f twelfth in breadth,considerably flattened; the rings 7S, with two additional dimidiate bronchi are of moderate length, with 12 half rings. The lateral musclesare very slender, as are the sterno-tracheales; the inferior laryngeal are verysmall, and seem to form only a single pair. N?13. PI 6 ytJc^aa^- / Drawn from Nulnre by J .1 Audubon Ki; , IVmicd « Oil? bv J I frm-n • THE WOOD PEWEE. 231 Pewit Flycatcher, Muscicapa nunciola, Wils. Amer. Orn., vol. ii. p. 78. Muscicapa fusca, Bonap. Syn., p. 68. Pewit Flycatcher or Phcebe, Nutt. Man., vol. i. p. 278. Pewee Flycatcher, Muscicapa fusca, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. ii. p. 122; vol. v. p. 424. Wing much rounded, third quill longest, fourth scarcely shorter, but con-siderably longer than second, first intermediate between sixth and seventh;tail emarginate; upper parts dull olive, the head much darker; quills and taildusky brown, secondaries and their coverts edged with pale brown; outertail-feathers whitish on the outer edge, unless toward the tip; lower partsdull yellowish-white, the breast tinged with grey. Male, 7, 9\. Throughout the United States, and northward. Spends the winter in vastnumbers in the southern parts
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