353 CRESTED CARIAMA. 



Pylorus situated immediately behind tlie latter organ. 



Length of intestines two feet six inches, of small and nearly equal calibre 

 through their entire length, measuring at their extreme breadth, four-twelfths 

 of an inch. 



Caecal appendages highly developed, varying from eight-twelfths to five- 

 twelfths of an inch when inflated : in length seven inches and a half; in form 

 they are first bulging, then contracted — again bulging, then contracting 

 again. 



Cloaca not examined, being injured by decomposition. 



Osteological peculiarities. The skeleton of this singular bird may be said to 

 be composed of four distinct orders of birds. The cranium is similar in 

 form and character to that of the Golden Eagle, rather longer in proportion 

 to its breadth ; the upper mandible is much hooked, and slightly overlapping 

 the under. Nostrils oval, septum dividing the orbits perforated by a single 

 oval foramen ; the bone extending from the base of the beak, to be attached 

 to the OS quadratum, (by some, termed the zygomatic arch,) is slender, par- 

 ticularly so in its centre; supraocular bone prominent; length of entire 

 cranium, four inches and four-twelfths of an inch; beak one inch and a 

 quarter, breadth across frontal bone one inch and a quarter ; occipital region 

 prominent. Cei'vical vertebrae thirteen in number, (including the atlas,) the 

 bodies of which are stout and broad, — the first four rather short, the remain- 

 der elongated, having rather long transverse processes. Dorsal vertebrae 

 six in number, the fourth and fifth anchylosed at their upper extremities. 

 Caudal vertebrae eight in number, the last very broad, flat, and triangular. 

 Eibs seven in number on either side, the first extremely small, the second 

 one inch longer than the former, these are rounded and free ; the remaining 

 five, with their sternal portions, are stout and broad, the inner processes of 

 medium size and anchylosed. There is also a rib, in a rudimentaiy state, 

 attached to the sternal portion of the last rib which has no process. Ster- 

 num, in profile, resembling that of a Macaw, having its crest elevated, body 

 broad, posterior margin narrow, and perforated by a single sinus on either 

 side, which is filled with a membrane. Furcula weak, the curve of which 

 is directed outwards, having no process at the union of its ciura; clavicle 

 short, stout, and spreading little ; scapula broad, short, and abruptly 

 rounded at its extremity. Bones of the wing similar in form to those of the 

 common Pheasant ; femur stout, rounded, nearly straight ; tibia very long, 

 fibula gradually tapering and extending four and a half inches on the outer 

 side of the tibial bone ; tarsus of nearly the same length as the tibia, de- 

 pressed and nearly straight ; three toes before, with a minute one behind 

 placed about one inch and a half up the tarsus, all furnished with claws, 

 Avhich ai'e Ion" and much cui'ved. 



