Zoological Society. 59 



« The oviducts were before their opening into the cloaca united 

 for a considerable distance, and were there thick and firm, becoming 

 Iradually thinner as they proceeded upwards, their course being in 

 fn indefinite convoluted manner. Throughout the greatest part of 

 the r len. h there ran a number of longitudinal folds, which became 

 fainter and were at length obliterated as the oviducts proceeded. 



"The ovaries contained a multitude of eggs of various sizes, and 

 of a round fi^^ure ; fifty of them at least were nearly as large as a 

 pigeon s egg! they were not covered with a shell, and were filled 



"''^The'kfdLtatpon the lungs (which extended over the 

 rarapaX to wlJich they'adhered; t^^-r figure was somev.^at3.^ed 

 from a broad flat base, with a rounded apex : their length was Z^ 

 nches Their surface was convoluted in a very singular manner 

 the folds being divisible, producing an appearance not unlike that 

 of the cerebelhm, which they also resembled in co our 



" On the mesocolon and near the intestine was situated an oval 

 dandular body of a dark colour, and of the size of a ^parrow egg, 

 ^ontabL white gritty specks. From this, which I suspected to 

 be thT pfeen a laie Jein proceeded along the mesentery, and uni- 

 ''ngwitf several others, enfered the liver; all the veins proceeding 

 from the viscera along the mesentery were very large and fuh ot 



"^"^mtngue was thick and fleshy, about an inch in length and 

 two-th^ds in breadth, white in colour and covered hickl^^ 

 elongated papillcc ; the tip was rounded, the base heat-shaped. 

 Between the glottis and base of the tongue so slight a distance in- 

 ferv^ned, that the larynx might be said to open directly into the 

 moutlMhe glottis risinf to a point coi.esponding -f ^-^ a-Jjusted 

 to the heart-shaped indentation at the base ot the tongue inis 

 SevatedTli' divided downwards and a little way longitudinally 

 bv the rS The larmx is supported posteriorly by the os hyoides, 

 which L broad, flat,^and pointed with double barbs, resembling 

 Tome double-ba'rbed 'arrow-iieads : it is however co-POsed of three 

 bones viz. a body, and two long curved bones uni ed by cartilages 

 to it the Sody ftself ending in two long cartilaginous processes ; 

 wh r'e ti;: osseo'us processes 'arise there is also on each side a smal 

 cartilaginous projection. An inch below the nma the tra^ca d v.des 

 into two branches, or bronchicB which run down f«f ^^ ''"l^^jy^^^ 

 each side of the neck, but shortly, in consequence of the bend ot the 

 neck, almost at the back of it, and describing m ^^^^^l. ^;>^l'^^^^X 

 sigmoid inflexion, they then subdivide ^"'i '"^"^'^'^'^f ^ ""*" J; e 

 lungs. About half an inch below the great d'^'S'on ^ stro"g i^uscl^ 

 of two or three lines in breadth passes across arising f^om the ver- 

 icbra^ of the neck on one side and united to the same ont'>c oppo- 

 site, thus acting as ■^. constrictor on the two tubes, «"d be ng doubt- 

 less of use in the deglutition of air. The length of the "«'/'^«^nd 

 the great branches to the lungs was 7^ inches ; the rings were per- 

 fect The subdivisions of the hronchi.u before entering the lung^ are 

 surrounded closely by numerous yellow glands. ^ 



