416 ANSERES. — PELECANID^. 



about the viscera, which was in series of small 

 lumps, was of a deep orange, or almost salmon- 

 red. I may add that our species seems much 

 more arboreal than that described by Prof. Owen. 

 On bending the heel-joint, so as to bring the 

 tarsus up towards the tibia, the toes were strong- 

 ly incurved; and on my placing a stick beneath 

 the toes, and then forcibly bending the heel, the 

 stick was grasped with so much power that it 

 could with difficulty be dragged away. I per- 

 ceived from the form which the foot assumed 

 under such circumstances, that the hind toe is 

 opposed to the others in grasping or perching, 

 notwithstanding their continuity of membrane ; the 

 web which connects the hind-toe being wide 

 enough to admit an object like the branch of a 

 tree, when the toes are opposed. 



The tongue is singularly minute ; the rami of 

 the hyoid bone, passing on each side of the 

 larynx, are simply enveloped in the membranes 

 of the pouch, and at their convergence, there is a 

 minute projecting point of cartilage about J inch 

 long, which is the only apology for a tongue. 



I was astonished to observe that the whole in- 

 ner surface of the skin on the trunk, was cellu- 

 lar, especially on the breast; composing an im- 

 mense congeries of membranous cells, inflated 

 with air. The pouch held seventeen pints of water, 

 which when full dripped out at a wound in the 

 fore-arm. 



