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that it is sixteen, but the true number is eighteen. The 

 account of the digestive and respiratory organs I have derived 

 from the examination of a male preserved in spirits, and 

 which I dissected for Mr, Audubon, the notice in the fifth 

 volume of his work being, like all the anatomical notices 

 * there, exclusively my own, as, indeed, is acknowledged by 

 the author. 



