Mel Lincoln Journal (undated)

and welded together into a great bony and membranous box. This is wholly errugular [im] centrical contour; this seems to act as a reverbative chamber to increase the vollume of the [souard]. It is chiefly developed in the male. the windings of the wind pipe are still more remarkable, very generally in cranes and swans the wind pipe enters the keal of the sternum which is excavated to receive it and where it forms one or more coils before emerging to pass to the lungs it reaches the extreme in the, Whooping Crane, where the trachea is about as long as the whole bird and about one half of it (over two feet of it is coiled away within the breast bone). In the [grirnie] fowl a loop of the trached is received in a cup by the apex of the clavical.

The larnyx of birds merely modulates the sound already produced in the lower end of the tube at its bifurcation, this is called syrinx; it is the voice organs of birds and contains vocal cords and other essentials.

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Sequence of zoological groups under which a bird may fall

Kingdom, animalia, animals Branch, vertebrata, back-boned, animals Province, sauropsida, lizard like vertebrates Class, Aves, birds Sub class, carinatae, birds with healed breast bone Order, passeres, perching birds Sub order, oscines, singing birds family, turdidae, thrush like birds sub family, turdinae, true thrushes Genus, turdus, typical thrushes sub genera, hylocyla , wood thrushes species, ustulatus, olive backed thrushes sub species, Alicila, Alice's thrush