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attached to the liver only by the biliary duets ; 

 stomach covered externally with much fat ; the 

 interior consisted of numerous rather tortuous lon- 

 gitudinal folds, and numerous papillae covered 

 the internal surface, from which, on pressure, a 

 small quantity of a thick substance exuded, 

 leaving a gaping opening : the first stomach was 

 empty ; the second stomach was lined with a 

 greenish substance, and contained only an un- 

 digested beak of a cuttle fish ; heart covered with 

 much fat ; gall-bladder full of bile of a grass- 

 green colour ; kidneys four-lobed, on one of the 

 lobes was a small diseased spot, of the size of a 

 pin's head, from which some inky fluid could be 

 expressed. This lobe was easily broken, and 

 evidently diseased : it was the first lobe of the 

 right kidney ; ureters long, terminating in the 

 cloaca. 



The bill in this species differs from others of 

 the genus, in being more slender and delicate in 

 formation, more particularly when compared 

 with that enormous type of the genus the ID. 

 exulans. 



The interior of the mouth is of a white colour, 

 excepting near the edges of the mandibles, which 

 have a delicate pink tinge. 



From the length of the bill in these birds 

 their bite is not severe, except when they seize 



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