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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
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
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rom the extremity, are very small, 2 twelfths long, ^twelfth in width. The cloaca is globular, and 7 twelfthsin diameter. The trachea is 1 inch 10 twelfths long, its breadthanteriorly 1^ twelfths, at the lower part 1 twelfth.The rings, about 70, are well ossified, and considerablyflattened. The inferior larynx has four pairs of mus-cles besides the sterno-tracheal. The bronchi haveabout 12 half rings. In another individual the intestine is 7 inches 9twelfths long. The contents of the stomach are re-mains of insects and particles of quartz. The Tulip Tree. Liriodendron tulipifera, Willd., Sp. Plant., vol. ii. p. 1254. Pursh. Flora Americ, p.332. Mich., Abr. Forest, de lAmer. Sept., t. iii. p. 202, pi. 5.—Polyandria Poly-gynia, Linn.—Magnolije, Juss. This tree is one of the most beautiful of those indigenous to the UnitedStates, and attains a height of seventy, eighty, or even a hundred feet. Theflowers are yellow and bright red, mixed with green, and upwards of three N?44. PI. 218.
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/ ■ Male. AdizJ* 2.7Zusi?Mrfe.-3ZZm*Je ■ I , - Lit*?h-inMA O/ ■■< I I ■ BULLOCKS TROOPIAL, ORIOLE, OR HANG-NEST. 43 inches in diameter. The leaves are ovate at the base, truncato-bilobate atthe end, with one or two lobes on each side, all the lobes acuminate. It isgenerally distributed, but prefers rich soils. Its bark is smooth on thebranches, cracked and fissured on the stems. The wood is yellow, hard, buteasily wrought, and is employed for numerous purposes, particularly in theconstruction of houses, and for charcoal. The Indians often form theircanoes of it, for which purpose it is well adapted, the trunk being of greatlength and diameter, and the wood light. In different parts of the UnitedStates, it receives the names of poplar, ivhite wood, and cane wood. BULLOCKS TROOPIAL, ORIOLE, OR HANG-NEST. -Mcterus Bullockii, Sivains.PLATE CCXVIIL—Male, Female, and Young Male. According to Mr. Nuttall, who has favoured me with so many observa-tions relative to the birds des

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