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lobe with grooves crossing each other. The intestine is five 

 feet ten inches long, nearly uniform in diameter, at the upper 

 part half an inch across. The duodenum or first fold is ten 

 inches long ; the rectum, which is cylindrical, six inches ; and 

 the coeca, which at their commencement are narrow, but after- 

 wards enlarged to a diameter of three-fourths of an inch, are 

 thirteen inches long. The upper part of the intestine is inter- 

 nally smoothish, the rest villous, until within two inches of the 

 rectum, when it is covered with rounded papillae. At the 

 commencement of the rectum is a sort of valve similar to that 

 at its extremity. The rectum is internally covered with round- 

 ed papillae, which are larger towards the lower end. The nar- 

 row part of the coeca, for three inches, is glandular, the rest 

 with seven or eight elevated longitudinal lines, which are here 

 and there connected by transverse ones. The cloaca, properly 

 so called, is only a quarter of an inch long, being separated from 

 the rectum by a slight ring, on which the ureters open, and 

 behind which is the aperture of the bursa of Fabricius. The 

 mesentery is attached to a short space between the lobes of the 

 liver ; and the mesorectum extends forwards as far as the pro- 

 ventriculus. 



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The legs are strong ; the tarsi, which are stout and a little 

 compressed, have about seventeen plates in each of their an- 

 terior series. The first toe, which is very small, has five, the 

 second twelve, the third twenty-two, the fourth nineteen scu- 

 tella. The spur on the back of the tarsus is conical, blunt, and 

 about a quarter of an inch long. 



The feathers of the uj^per part of the head are oblong and 



