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on each side of the kings there is a ring larger and stronger than any other ring 

 of the windpipe. There are divers glands in the neck near the gula; these an 

 ash-colour ; and there are two most beautiful glands sticking to the carotid ar- 

 teries as they come out of the breast, one on each side, these are bluish. The 

 peritonaeum doubles, and encompasses the stomach loosely. He has 7 ribs, 

 and the intercostal muscles are broad, plain, and beautiful. He has no promi- 

 nent breast-bone, like other fowls, nor a narrow chest like many quadrupeds, 

 but a broad breast, and a large firm sternum, of the shape of a shield, broader 

 than the sternum of a man; and indeed when he puts down his head, and bends 

 his neck round to come in at a door, his breast is so broad, and his tread so 

 different, that it is not at all like the entrance of a fowl, but wonderfully like 

 that of a camel, but with this advantage, that the ostrich bearing his weight 

 upon 2 legs only, his entrance is more bold and graceful. This was a young 

 male ostrich, and had the penis about an inch long, with a small cartilaginous 

 substance in it. The testes lie very high near the kidneys and back-bone, and 

 were very small and slender, of a yellow colour. The ear is round, and the 

 orifice will receive one's finger ; the eye is large and bluish, almost as large as a 

 man's. 



The rimula of the larynx is long, and the cartilages about it strong, but no 

 epiglottis, or likeness to a human larynx, although they that heard its voice, 

 compare it to the crying or shrieking of a hoarse child, but more mournful and 

 dismal ; which confirms the account given by Mr. Sandys in his travels, that 

 there are a great number of ostriches in the desarts, which keep in flocks, and 

 often frighten strangers and passengers with their fearful screeches. The lungs 

 are of fine florid colours, but small in proportion to the vast aspera arteria, they 

 stick close to the back, and are perforated like other birds; but on blowing into 

 the windpipe with a pair of bellows, we could not make them rise or fill. The 

 heart has 2 ventricles about the size of a man's heart, but the right ventricle is 

 much thinner, and the valves are more fieshy. There are 2 stomachs, as in 

 granivorous fowls, a crop, and a gizzard ; but the crop or first stomach differs 

 much from that of other fowls, in that it is not placed without the breast as 

 with them, but within the sternum, and is not round, but longer like a bag, 

 and of a vast size, lying lengthwise in the body. But what was most satisfac- 

 tory of all in this dissection was, the glands found in the coats of this stomach, a 

 row of them on the back part of it, reaching almost from one end to the other, 

 about 1000 of them, about 10 in breadth and 100 in length. These lie be- 

 tween the coats of the stomach, and every particular gland discharges itself by a 

 peculiar orifice, through the inner coat of the stomach into its cavity; we found 

 some of these glands round and globular, some oval, and some more fiat, of 



