The Birds of America Paperback - 2012
by John James Audubon
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ...bars; legs and toes pure buff. Male 14 J, 38. Female, 16, 40. A male sent in spirits from Boston by Dr. Brewer: --The roof of the mouth is flat, with two longitudinal ridges, the sides ascending; the posterior aperture of the nares oblong, 4 twelfths long, with an interior fissure. The tongue is 7 twelfths long, deeply emarginate and papillate at the base, flattish above, with a faint median groove, the sides parallel, the tip narrowed and emarginate. The mouth is very wide, measuring 1 inch and 1 twelfths. The oesophagus is 5 inches long, of nearly uniform diameter throughout, as in all other Owls, its breadth being 1 inch. The proventricular glandules form a belt 9 twelfths in diameter. The stomach is large, round, 1 inch 9 twelfths long, 1 inch 7 twelfths broad, its walls thin, its muscular coat composed of rather coarse fasciculi, but without distinction into lateral muscles; the tendinous spaces circular, and about 8 twelfths in diameter; its epithelium soft and rugous. The duodenum is 3 twelfths in diameter, and curves at the distance of 3 inches from the pylorus. The intestine is 23 inches long, its smallest diameter only 1 twelfth. The cceca, Fig. 2, are in this individual unequal, as they very frequently are in Owls; the largest being 2 inches 10 twelfths in length, their greatest diameter twelfths, their distance from the anus 3 inches and a quarter. The cloaca is of an enormous size, ovate, 2 inches long, 1 inch 2 twelfths broad. It contains a calculous concretion 9 twelfths long, 7 twelfths broad, and 3 twelfths thick. The trachea, which is 3 inches long, is 3j twelfths in breadth at the upper part, 2 twelfths in the middle, and 3 twelfths at its lower extremity; its rings about 75 in number, cartilaginous, and considerably flattened. The l...
Details
- Title The Birds of America
- Author John James Audubon
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 76
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Rarebooksclub.com
- Date 2012-05
- ISBN 9781236014252 / 1236014251
- Weight 0.34 lbs (0.15 kg)
- Dimensions 9.69 x 7.44 x 0.16 in (24.61 x 18.90 x 0.41 cm)
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