102 CHARACTERS OF THE ORDERS. 



CEsophagus rather wide, Avithout crop or dilatation ; proven- 

 triculus bulbiforin, with oblong or cylindrical glandules. Sto- 

 mach rather large, roundish, more or less compressed ; its 

 muscular coat of moderate thickness, not separated into distinct 

 muscles, but composed of uniform fasciculi inserted into circu- 

 lar tendinous spaces ; the epithelium thin, and slightly rugous. 

 Intestine of moderate length and diameter ; coeca very small, 

 cylindrical, adnate. Legs of moderate length, rather stout ; 

 toes three before, one behind ; the first of about the same 

 length as the second and fourth, the third much longer, and 

 united at the base with the fourth ; claws arched, stout, com- 

 pressed, acute. Wings of moderate length, much rounded, 

 the primaries narrowed and separated towards the end, the 

 first very short, the fourth and fifth longest. Ficf. 38, and 



