. The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories . of theother 3 inches 8 twelfths. The stomach, c d ef, is rather large, roundish, 1inch 9 twelfths in diameter, a little compressed, its lateral muscles ratherthin, the lower somewhat prominent. Its contents are remains of fishes, anda great quantity of small stones and pebbles. The epithelium is prettythick, dense, with numerous longitudinal rugae. The proventricular glandsform a belt 1 inch 10 twelfths in breadth. The intestine is 4 feet 11 incheslong; its average width 8 twelfths. The coeca, Fig. 2, c c,
. The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories . of theother 3 inches 8 twelfths. The stomach, c d ef, is rather large, roundish, 1inch 9 twelfths in diameter, a little compressed, its lateral muscles ratherthin, the lower somewhat prominent. Its contents are remains of fishes, anda great quantity of small stones and pebbles. The epithelium is prettythick, dense, with numerous longitudinal rugae. The proventricular glandsform a belt 1 inch 10 twelfths in breadth. The intestine is 4 feet 11 incheslong; its average width 8 twelfths. The coeca, Fig. 2, c c, 2^ inches long, A\twelfths broad, towards the end 6 twelfths, with the extremity rectum is 2 inches long, with a globular cloaca, b, 1^ inches in diameter. Trachea 111 inches long, much flattened, from 6 twelfths to 4 twelfths inbreadth; the rings 145, with 2 dimidiate. Bronchi moderate, of 20 halfrings. Lateral muscles strong; a single series of inferior laryngeal musclesgoing to the last half ring of the trachea. Vol. VII. 43 306 THE RED-THROATED DIVER. Fig. 1. Fig.
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