110 PHASIANUS. PHEASANT. 



tbriii, a crop of great size, lying over the fore part of the neck 

 and thorax, its internal or intra-thoracic part also narrow. In 

 its whole extent it is abundantly supplied with mucous follicles, 

 and below the crop, which is glandular only at the base, the 

 inner membrane is raised into longitudinal rugse. The pro- 

 ventricular glands are few, very large, oblong, sacculate, placed 

 very obliquely. Stomach a powerful gizzard of a subrhom- 

 boidal form, with the tw^o lateral muscles transverse, the lower 

 thin, its fibres inserted into the central tendons under the rest ; 

 the middle coat rather thin and tough ; the inner or cuticular 

 with longitudinal rugae on the sides. The pyloric orifice is 

 situated in a transverse depression, between the slight upper 

 lobe and the lateral muscle, and has no valvular apparatus. 

 Intestine long, rather wide, of nearly uniform diameter ; cceca 

 very long, wider than the intestine ; rectum long, cylindrical. 

 The duodenum is nearly smooth internally ; the small intes- 

 tine villous ; the rectum granulated. 



Nostrils linear-oblong, slightly recurved, in the lower and 

 fore part of the nasal membrane, which is thick, rather firm, 

 vaulted, and smooth. Eyes of moderate size ; eyelids bare, 

 .and with a large space surrounding them, and extending along 

 the whole side of the head to the bill, bare, and covered with 

 small cutaneous papillae, intermixed with series of plumules. 

 External ear of moderate size, roundish, the inner aperture 

 transverse, in the form of a slit. 



Head oblong, rather small, compressed, the forehead sloping. 

 Neck of moderate length. Body large, full. Legs, Fig. 40, of 

 moderate length, strong ; tarsi of moderate length, stout, a little 

 compressed, anteriorly covered with two series of alternating 

 scutella, continuous with the third and fourth toes, posteriorly 

 also with two series, the inner interrupted by the spur, which 

 is short, conical, obtuse. Toes strong, the anterior connected 

 at the base by thick webs ; the third much longer than the 

 other two, which are nearly equal ; the first very small, and 

 a little elevated. Claws of moderate size, slightly arched, fiat 

 beneath, rather compressed, and rather blunt. 



Plumage various, the feathers generally ovate or oblong, 

 compact, on the head and neck of the males splendent. The 



