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tuberculated): on the left aide was ihe gizzard ; and on ilie right, the 

 first portion of the duodenum with the spleen apparent. On turning 

 back the stomach, there appeared, dorsad, the coil of intestines. 



" Beginning with the cesophagus, I found it a wide dilatable simple 

 tube, puckered longitudinally wiihin, but these foldings disappeared 

 on dilatation ; lying compressed in situ its breadth was rather more 

 than i- an inch. Without any previous dilatation or crop, it entered 

 the provenlrkulus; its boundary line being a sphincter-like thicken- 

 ing. The whole of the proventriculus was covercd internally with 

 small thickly set glands, of a flattened figure ; and ils length from the 

 teimination of tlie asophagus to the gizzard was į of an inch. 



" The tongue was tipped with a sharp flat horny point ; but I could 

 find no biistles at its apex, as in the Toucans, and as was seen by 

 Mr. Owen in the Corythaix porphyreolopha. Its base was covered 

 witii retroverled papillcE, which occurred again posteiior to the rimą 

 glottidis. The pharynx, or opening into the gullet, was beset with 

 numerous glands, the mouths of which were very visible. The trachea 

 was a straight tube ; but soon after commencing it gradually contract- 

 ed, and then gradually dilated for the space of an inch, contracting 

 again, and again dilating as it dipped into the chest. As this pecu- 

 liarity is not noticed by Mr. Owen in the species he dissected, I con- 

 clude that it does not exist in it. The sterno-tracheal museles eon- 

 sisted of a single pair. 



" The liver consisted of two lobes as usual, and beneath the right 

 lay the gall-bladder, of an oblong figure, which I found empty. Its 

 duot, 2 inches in length, entered the duodenum at the first angle, and 

 beneath the body of the pancreas, accompanied by an hepatic duct 

 vvhich entered \vith it. 



"The pancreas vvas small, and consisted of a lobulated portion 

 lying on the angle of the duodenum above mentioned, and giving ofF 

 a narrow slip along the first portion of the duodemtm to vvhich it was 

 closely attached. I could trace two small ducts from it entering near 

 the bile-ducts. The distance of this angle from the gizzard vvas about 

 14- inch. I found the spleen adhering to the gizzard, and betvveen 

 this and the right lobe of the liver. Its figure vvas oval, its size that 

 of a small nutmeg, its structure soft and evidently disorganized. 



" The heart presented nothing remarkable ; it vvas subacute and 1 į 

 inch long. 



" The muscular parietės of the gizzard were thin 5 but this viscus 

 vvas lined by a leathery membrane of a vvhitish colour : its length vvas 

 Ii inch ; its diameter vvhen lying compressed as usual lį. It con- 

 tained a little undigested vegetable matter. 



"The duodenum, beginning small from a short pyloric canal, as 

 noticed by Mr. Owen, suddenly dilated to 4ths of an inch in dia- 

 meter; the pyloric canal vvas corrugated internally, these corruga- 

 tions verging to a sphincter. 



" The small intestines were 1 1-f inches in length, tcrminating in a 



