336 BRITISH BIRDS. [vol. vi. 



Mr. Dugakl Macintvre, since his first letter, sent a 

 further supply of these gizzard-sacs to the Field with 

 two fresh specimens of Curlews, in order that the ejected 

 sac might be compared with the lining of the fresh gizzard, 

 and there can be no doubt about the two being identi- 

 cally the same. These specimens are now in the Royal 

 College of Surgeons, where they will be preserved in the 

 Museum, so that students of Natural History can see them 

 for themselves. A photograph of two of them, one 

 sho^ving the outside and the other the inside and the grit- 

 contents are here reproduced. A note on the subject 

 appeared in the Field of March 15th, 191,3. 



From these notes, and from the examination of the 

 gizzard-sacs sent by Mr. D. Macintyre, and by examina- 

 tion of the gizzards of the fresh Curlews, it would seem 

 that we must add to the list of birds that are able to eject 

 the lining-membrane of their gizzards, the name of the 

 Curlew [Numenius arqiiaUi.) 



