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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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1 inch 5 twelfths long, 1 inch 2 twelfths broad; its lateral muscles dis-tinct and of moderate size, the lower prominent, the tendons large, theepithelium dense, with veiy prominent large ruga?; the inner coat of theoesophagus is longitudinally plicate; the proventricular belt 1 inch in breadth,with six broad plates. Intestine 30 inches long, its width at the upper part5 twelfths, diminishing to 2\ twelfths, cceca 3 twelfths long, 1 twelfth broad,3 inches distant from the extremity, rectum 5 twelfths broad, with a globularcloaca 9 twelfths in diameter. The duodenum curves at the distance of 2\inches, advances toward the liver in the usual manner, and is afterwards veryregularly coiled in an elliptical form, with 10 bends. Trachea 5 inches long,from 3 twelfths to 2\ twelfths in breadth, not flattened, its rings slightlyosseous, 130. Bronchi wide, of 20 half rings. The lateral and sterno-tra-cheal muscles are slender, and a slip on each side extends to the last half-ringof the trachea.
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c C : N V 159 THE WHITE-WINGED SILVERY GULL. -fLARus leucopterus, Faber.PLATE CCCCXLVII.—Adult Male, and Young. I have not met with this species farther south than the Bay of New York.During the winter it is not rare about Boston and farther eastward. At theapproach of summer, before the pairing of the Herring Gull, Larus argen-tatus, the White-winged Gulls collect in flocks, and set out for the distantnorth, where they breed. The flight of this species so much resembles that of the Herring Gull,that were it not for its smaller size, and the different colour of its wings, itcould not be distinguished from the other. It is less shy, however, proceedsfarther up the rivers and salt-water creeks, and alights oftener on the wateras well as on the salt-meadows, than that species. While at Portland inMaine, I observed a good number of these Gulls flying over the inner har-bour close to the shores, descending towards the water, and picking up gar-bage in the manner of the Herring Gulls, wit

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