Zoological Society. 459 



"The liver was trilobed, deeply divided, of a pale colour, singu- 

 larly mottled with red, and indurated : on cutting into it, the same 

 paleness was found to obtain, joined to a sort of granulated ap- 

 pearance and fracture. The gall-bladder was small, and contained 

 no bile, to the secretion of which the liver was probably of late 

 inadequate. The ductus choledochus communis entered four inches 

 from the pylorus. 



" The intestines were pale and flaccid with extensive adhesions 

 both of these and the mesentery, affording proofs of inflammatory 

 action. The length of the colon and rectum was two feet ; that of 

 the ccecum thirteen inches ; the shape of the latter was not unlike 

 that of a horn, its base being broad, from whence it gradually ta- 

 pered to a point, with spiral gyrations on the mesentery. The 

 small intestines measured 5 feet <H inches. 



" The cavity of the chest was relatively small, that of the abdo- 

 men advancing high. The lungs were divided into three lobes on 

 the left, and three large and one small lobe on the right side. Then: 

 surface afforded strong indications of inflammation, and their sub- 

 stance when squeezed between the fingers communicated a very 

 distinct crepitus. The heart was large, and tolerably firm ; on the 

 surface of the right ventricle there were two hydatids in a line one 

 above the other. 



" The kidneys were rather large, and their structure soft and 

 pulpy. The testes were small, elongated, lying in front of the pubes 

 and distant from the abdominal ring about one inch. The bladder 

 was small and long ; and the ureters entered about a line from the 

 neck. The vesiculfs seminales were small and handle-shaped, with 

 a single turn. 



" The tongue was long, thin, rounded at the tip, of a black co- 

 lour, except at the root, soft in texture, and covered with downy 

 papilla, which increased in size and length, but diminished in num- 

 ber, towards the root. The epiglottis was large and broad ; the 

 rima glottidis long ; and from the arytenoid cartilages two processes 

 extended backwards, having a triangular flattened surface ending 

 in a point." 



The body of one of the Society's specimens of the Razor-billed 

 Curassoiv, (Ourax Mitu, Cuv.,)was laid on the table, and Mr. Yar- 

 rell pointed out the peculiarities of its very elongated trachea, which 

 is produced between the skin and the muscles beyond the sternum, 

 and reaches almost to the vent. It has been figured by Dr. Latham, 

 M. Temminck, and others. Mr. Yarrell displayed the sterno-tra- 

 cheal muscles extending along the whole of the tube, and remarked 

 that this disposition prevails, with one or two exceptions, in all 

 birds in which the fold of the trachea is not included in bone. In 

 those birds, on the contrary, in which the prolongation of the trachea 

 enters a cavity in the sternum, (as for instance in the Hoopers Cygnus 

 Jerus and Cygn. Bewickii,) the sterno-tracheal muscles pass from 

 the entering portion of the tube to that which has just left the bone, 

 and are not continued along the fold of trachea included within the 

 bone. 



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