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thought. The bones of the pelvis are fused, the 

 gullet has a dilated part known as the ingluvies (or 

 crop), which serves for the storage of grain. Immedi- 

 ately below this is the continuation of the digestive 

 tube, and in all seed-eating birds there is a gizzard 

 or muscular organ for grinding the food, but 

 between this and the crop is the true digestive 

 stomach. The intestines really begin with the 

 gizzard and end at the cloaca, i.e., an aperture 

 common to the urinary, and alimentary passages. 



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