24 LIEUT.-COLONEL SYKES ON THE QUAILS AND HEMIPODII OF INDIA. 
The intestine varied in length only from 8 to 8+ inches, and the ceca from 1 to 13> 
inch: the latter were inserted into the intestine at 2 inches from the rectum. The 
liver consisted of two lobes; but there was a deep fissure in the left lobe of one bird. 
Stomach muscular, oval, compressed ; digastric muscle =*; thick, which was consider- 
able for the size of the bird. Organs of sex minute. Eggs numerous, very minute. I 
do not observe any mention of a gall-bladder in my notes. 
