EAGLE-O^L. 4Q,'5 



linear, the edges papillate, and with a broad space on 

 each side covered with reverted papillae, and terminat- 

 ing behind in a rounded papillate margin. Tongue 

 oblong, fleshy, sagittate and papillate at the base, its 

 upper surface with a medial longitudinal groove, its 

 sides nearly parallel, its tip retuse or slightly emargi- 

 nate, the lower free surface horny. Aperture of the 

 glottis with three papillate lobes behind. CEsophagus 

 very wide, thin, without remarkable dilatation, the in- 

 ner coat with numerous longitudinal folds ; the proven- 

 triculus studded with cylindrical glandules, and dilated 

 below. Stomach large, its muscular coat very thin, 

 its fibres distinct and fasciculated, the central tendons 

 small and thin, the inner surface smooth. Pylorus 

 closed by a rim or sphincter, without valves. Intestine 

 larger at the commencement, and continuing of nearly 

 the same diameter about a fourth of its length, then 

 gradually contracting to near the coeca, which are of 

 the same diameter at their commencement, gradually 

 enlarge, and are oblong and rounded at the extremity ; 

 the rectum much larger, and terminating in a globular 

 cloaca. 



Nostrils large, oblique, roundish or broadly ellipti- 

 cal, their cavity divided by an oblique soft ridge from 

 the upper edge. Eyes extremely large, fixed, obliquely 

 situated ; eyelids with thin crenate margins, discon- 

 tinued at the two canthi, and ciliary fringes of short, 

 widely barbed feathers ; the upper eyelid much larger. 

 Conch of the ear about half the height of the head, el- 

 liptical, fringed with feathers, and having the large el- 

 liptical oblique aperture of the meatus in its lower part ; 

 no bare space connected with the conch. 



