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^" rs TEMA TIC S Y NOP SIS. — HER ODIONES — HER ODII. 



In conformity with this, tlie gullet is capacious, but without special dilatation, the stomach is 

 small and little muscular, the intestines are long and extremely slender, with a large globular 





Fio. CIO. — Herons, idealized from Ardea cinerea. (From Michelet.) 



cloaca and a coecum. Herons are altricial, and generally nest in trees or bushes (where their 

 msessorial feet enable them to perch with ease), in swampy or other places near the water, 



