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March22, 1836. 

 Richard Ovven, E.sq., in the Chair 



The follovving Notės by Mr. Martin on the visceral and osteological 

 Anatomy of the Canama, Dicholophus cristatus, III., were read. 



" The Cariama, of the examination of vvhich I made the folIowing 

 notes, was sent to the Society by its President, the Earl of Derby in 

 November, 1835. It was a female, and had died from the effects of 

 €xtensive visceral inflammation. 



" The trachea, vvithout making any curvature or loop, passed straight 

 into the chest. The cesophagus, immediately before its entrance, pre- 

 sented a gentie but evident dilatation. On carefully dissecting away 

 the abdominal museles, the gizzard appeared just below the apex of 

 the sternum, lying in a vertical position, so that its defined abdominal 

 edge seemed a contmuation of the sternal apex. On each side above 

 was a large air-cell extending along the ribs, but separated from what 

 may be termed the thoracic air-cell ; and on each side below was 

 another, occupymg the iliacregion, the membrane being fixed to the 

 pubic bones. From the gizzard a kind of fatty omentum, if the term 

 be .aliovved, stretehed over the intestines ; this omentum, however 

 was only the peritoneal membrane lining the abdominal museles' 

 having fat disposed m a foliaceous manner between its two lamitKe' 

 belovv the gizzard lay the duodenum, its loose foid sweeping round 

 that viscus in a horseshoe form. Each lobe of the liver vvas very soft 

 and as it were, decomposed in structure, of a rose pink colour, and' 

 glued firmly to the peritoneal cavity by a layer of coagulated Ivmph 

 iialt an mch thick ; and the abdominal cavity was filled with bloodv 

 serum. ^ 



"The gizzard was of large size, thin, but muscular, with a radiating 

 tendinous patch on each side, of the size of half-a-crown. It was 

 lined with a strong coriaceous membrane, of a yellowish colour, irre- 

 gularly puckered. The proventriculus was lined for the extent of 2 

 inches above its entrance into the gizzard with a zone of thicklv set 

 glands. •' 



" The duodenum, on leaving the gizzard, made a svveep of 6 inches 

 trom the right to the left, round that viscus, and then, returning sud- 

 deniy upon itself, embraced in this flexure, as usual, tht pancreas. The 

 whole of the small intestines vi^ere disposed in loops of a simiiar na- 

 ture, but of less extent. The duodenum at its commencement vvas a 

 little enlarged J but not into anything likę a pyloric appendlv as in 

 the Adjutant. 



" The gall-bladder was of the size of a walnut; and thebiliary duot, 



