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Title: The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories
Year: 1840 (1840s)
Authors: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 Bowen, John T., ca. 1801-1856?, lithographer
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: New York : Published by J.J. Audubon Philadelphia : J.B. Chevalier
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he posterioraperture of the nares linear, margined with two rows of papillae. Thetongue is slender, decurved, long, measuring 6^ twelfths, deeply emarginateand papillate at the base, concave above, horny in the greater part of itslength, and tapering to a point. The oesophagus is 1 inch S twelfths long,of moderate width, its average diameter 1-^- twelfth, without dilatation. Theproventriculus is enlarged to 2 twelfths. The stomach is a muscular gizzard,of a somewhat elliptical form, 5 twelfths long, 4^ twelfths in breadth; itslateral muscles very strong, the tendons of moderate size; the epitheliumthin, tough, longitudinally rugous, reddish-brown. The contents of thestomach are remains of insects of various kinds, and one large particle ofquartz. The intestine is short, being only 4j inches long; its greatestdiameter 1 twelfth; the rectum is dilated; the cceca, which come off at thedistance of 5 twelfths from the extremity, are -£ twelfth long, and \ twelfthin breadth. N°24 PI. 116.
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