270 GOOSANDER,.
The rectum 5 inches, long, including thè cflos'ca, which tea.* diameter,
of an inch and a quarter.
The trachea, I OA inches long, has at fot a diameter of 1 twelfths,
dilates gradually to 8 twelfths, then contracts to 4 twelfths, enlarges a
second time to 7 twelfths, and gradually contracts to 3 twelfths. In
this space the rings, 140, are strong, broad, and osseous. At its; lower
part is an enormous dilatation composed of numerous unite® rings,
bulging irregularly on thé. right side and behind, and on the left: expanded
into a case haying two large spaces filled by membrane ; the
greatest diameter of this tympanum is 2 inches, and 2 twelfths. The
bronchi come off at the distance of nearly an inch ftom each other, and
are short, bui wide, with about 25 halftrings. The lateral or contractor
musei«®'aie very strong, give oil' a pair of feleid.Htraolieids from the
second enlargement, and at the commencement of the labyrinth the
stermo-tracheals, which are also very large ; but there are no other inferior
laryngeal muscle?.
The intestine of a male in the first winter is 0 feet 8 inches long,
its greatest diameter half an inch, wider towards Ufe rectum than at
the upper part, where the diameter is 4 twelfths, licet uni 4J Inches
long, exclusive of the cloaca. Cosca 2 i inches, C o n t e n t s of stomach,
romains of fishes and a great quantity of quartz fragments^
An adult Female. (Esophagus 10J inches long ; stomach 2 inches
long : intestine 5 feet J inches ; rectum 4] : j ^ ^ 'Mf y . The trachea
0 inches long, of uniform diameter, 4 twelfths, with a very slight dilatation
toward thp. ¡oner part, and at the lower larynx contracted to 3
twelfths ; the last ring is very large, laterally Mated, but .symmetrical ;
the bronchi come off at the djstano.e of 5 twelfths from each other, and
are composed of 25 rings. The tracheal rings 150.
With respect to their digestive organs, the Mcrgiuisers are perhaps
more allied to the Divers than ta the Ducks. In this, as in other respects,
they seem to be placed oft; the limits of the two families,
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P I E D DÜGK.
FU1.1QVI.A LABRADORA, (i.MEL.
PLATE CCOXXXI I. MALE AND F e hm.
At.TiK.raH no teds of this species oectirra! to me: when I was in
Labrador, my son, Íí>hn WóodhOW», and t # young friends who ac-
,:0,np«nitMl him on the 28th of July l.Hittto Blanc Gabion, found, placed
on the. top of the low tftnglf.'d fir-bushes, several deserted nests, which
from the report of the English clerk of the fishing establishment there,
we learned to belong to the l'ied Duck. TbeylSg much the appearance
of those of the Eider Duck, "bernf iery -large, forme» e«e«tally
of fit-twigs, internally of dried grass, and lined with down. It would thus
'Seem that the l'ied Duck breeds earlier than most of its I n h e r i t is surprising
that this species is not» 'mentioned by Br Richakdso» in the
Éauna ¿Jéali-Americana, a« it is a very hardy bird, and is met with
along the co'a'sts of Nova Scotia, Maine,"and Massachusetts, during the
iii'ost severe cold of winter. My friend Professor MacCbi^och of Fictoú
has procured several in his immediate neighbourhood : and the Honourable
Dasiki. Websiek of Host on sent me a fine pair killed by himself,
on the Vineyard-lAaads, on the coast of Massachusetts, from which I
made the drawing for the plate before you. The female has not, I belief
e, teen hitherto figured; yet tlie one represented was not an old bird.
The rtage of this species along our shores does not extend farther
southward than Chesapeake Bay, where I have seen some near the influx
of the St. James Hivor. I have also met with several in the Baltimore
market. AlongFíhe coast of New Jersey and Long Island it occurs
in g reat e "or Ifess number every year. It also át time! enters the
Delaware River in Pennsylvania, and ascends that stream at least as
far „5 Philadelphia. A bird-Stuffer whom I knew at Camden had
fine specimens, iffl of which he had procured by baiting fishhooks
with (he common mussel, on a " trot-Sine" sunt a few-feet beneath
the surface,'iiut. on Which he never found one alive, on account
of the manner in which these Ducks dive and flounder when securely
hooked. All the specimens which I saw with this person, male and
female, we« in perfect plumage; and I have not enjoyed opportunities:
of seeing the changes which this species undergoes.