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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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scales, the rest of their extent scutellate. Clawsrather large, very strong, compressed, curved, very acute, the third withparallel slits on the inner edge. A bare space at the base of the uppermandible, including the eye; skin of the throat bare and dilated, as in theCormorants. Plumage close, blended, silky, the feathers oblong; scapularselongated, lanceolate, compact, the outer web of the largest undulated.Wings of moderate length and breadth; third quill longest, inner secondarieselongated and resembling the posterior scapulars. Tail very long, narrow,of twelve straight feathers, having very strong shafts, and increasing inbreadth to the end. Tongue a slight oblong knob; oesophagus very wide;proventricular glands placed on the right side in the form of a globular sac;stomach roundish, of moderate size, rather thin, with its inner coat soft andsmooth; a large roundish pyloric lobe; intestine long and very slender; nocceca, but a small rounded termination to the rectum. X?8! T).^20,
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J)mn\-n /y.-rit .l.rfrnv fr-J J.JuJitfcnJJ! S . Zi&J5ir,rat ZSoirtf-./rJlomnThiia 443 AMERICAN ANHINGA OR SNAKE-BIRD. -f Plotus Anhinga, Linn.PLATE CCCCXX.—Male and Female. The Snake-bird is a constant resident in the Floridas, and the lower partsof Louisiana, Alabama, and Georgia. Few remain during winter in SouthCarolina, or in any district to the eastward of that State; but some proceedas far as North Carolina in spring, and breed along the coast. I have foundit in Texas in the month of May, on the waters of Buffalo Bayou, and theSt. Jacinto river, where it breeds, and where, as I was told, it spends thewinter. It rarely ascends the Mississippi beyond the neighbourhood ofNatchez, from which most of the individuals return to the mouths of thatgreat stream, and the numerous lakes, ponds, and bayous in its vicinity,where I have observed the species at all seasons, as well as in the Floridas. Being a bird which, by its habits, rarely fails to attract the notice of themost indiffe

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