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minishes to a twelfth and a half, but is again a little 

 enlarged towards the coeca, whicli are two inches and 

 a half long, only one-twelfth in diameter for an inch 

 and a half, the remaining part formed into an oblong, 

 rounded sac, half an inch across at its widest part. The 

 rectum is two inches and a half long ; the cloaca funnel- 

 shaped, and one inch in diameter. The liver is very 

 large, of two nearly equal lobes ; the gall-bladder large 

 and globular. In another individual, the intestine was 

 only eighteen inches long. 



The eyes are very large, the eyelids furnished with 

 broad, tliin margins, and ciliary fringes of small dis- 

 tantly barbed feathers, both eyelids equally mobile. 

 The nostrils are medial, lateral, large, oblique, oblong, 

 in the fore edge of the cere, with a tough soft mem- 

 brane above, and having internally a ridge curved 

 backwards from the inner edge ; the aperture of the 

 ear large, elliptical, the concha extending from over the 

 eye to the base of the lower mandible, curved, with an 

 anterior, and a posterior flap, beset with recurved fea- 

 thers. 



The tarsi, which are feathered, are short and stout. 

 The toes also are short and feathered, the third and 

 fourth connected at the base by a short web ; the first 

 shortest and admitting of much lateral motion, the third 

 longest, the second and fourth nearly equal. On all 

 the toes are two terminal scutella. 



Claws long, curved in the fourth of a circle, tapering, 

 extremely acute, rounded above, convex on the sides, 

 very narrow beneath, the first and second rounded, the 

 rest flat ; that of the fourth toe smallest, of the first 

 slightly larger, those of the other toes much larger and 



