. A history of British birds . h on the 26th December, 1879; and it wasstated that four of these on dissection also proved to beC. americanus (Zool. 1880, p. 111). There seems, however,good reason to doubt the correctness of the diagnosis, andsome remarks on the subject, with illustrations of the billsof this and Bewicks Swan in the Proceedings of the NaturalHistory Society of Glasgow, vol. iv. p. 818, maybe consultedwith advantage by those who are in haste to add fresh speciesof waterfowl to the British list. The vignette represents a front view of a portion of thebody of Bewicks Swan; the an
. A history of British birds . h on the 26th December, 1879; and it wasstated that four of these on dissection also proved to beC. americanus (Zool. 1880, p. 111). There seems, however,good reason to doubt the correctness of the diagnosis, andsome remarks on the subject, with illustrations of the billsof this and Bewicks Swan in the Proceedings of the NaturalHistory Society of Glasgow, vol. iv. p. 818, maybe consultedwith advantage by those who are in haste to add fresh speciesof waterfowl to the British list. The vignette represents a front view of a portion of thebody of Bewicks Swan; the anterior part of the descendingwindpipe being turned aside to show its inner ascendingpart, the muscles of voice, and the tendinous fascia stretchedacross from one branch of the forked bone or merrythought,over to the other, by which both portions are , and other anatomical representations, necessarily verymuch reduced in size here, will be found on a larger scalein the sixteenth volume of the Linnean 324 ANSERES. ANATIDJl. ANATIDjE
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