212 FALCO ^ SALON. 



gitudinal riigse, which are larger and more numerous 

 in the crop. Tlie stomach is of an ovate form, a little 

 compressed ; its muscular coat thin, but with distinct, 

 although very thin tendons, about five-twelfths of an 

 inch in diameter. The pylorus is very narrow, with 

 three soft valvular prominences. The intestine, which 

 is thirty-one inches long, has at its commencement, and 

 for about six inches, a diameter of three-twelfths of an 

 inch, but gradually diminishes to that of a line and a 

 half. About two inches from its extremity are two 

 coeca, so extremely small as to be with great difficulty 

 found, adherent, and merely forming a shallow sac, not 

 more than half a line in depth. The rectum dilates, and 

 towards its extremity becomes somewhat funnel-shaped, 

 with a diameter of about an inch. The liver is of two 

 nearly equal undivided lobes ; the gall-bladder large. 



The eyes are large; the eyelids furnished with short 

 bristles on the margin ; the upper bare, with the lachry- 

 mal bone prominent ; the nostrils in the fore part of 

 the cere nearly round, with a central papilla ; the aper- 

 ture of the ear round and rather large. 



The tarsi, which are anteriorly feathered more than 

 a third down, are slender, anteriorly rounded, com- 

 pressed behind, covered with reticular scales, ten of 

 which on the inner and fore part are larger, while over 

 the joint are four distinct scutella. The toes are slen- 

 der, scutellate above, the anterior connected at the base 

 by short webs, of which the outer is much longer ; the 

 first toe short, the fourth a little longer than the se- 

 cond, the third much longer. On the first toe are 

 eight, on the second ten, on the third twenty-one, and 

 on the fourth eleven scutella. 



