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stones of the size of walnuts, and about 14 or 15 pieces of silver and copper- 

 money. Tiie 1st stomach, or crop, was exceedingly tender, and contained, 

 crammed as it was, between 3 and 4 quarts. The glands on the top of the 

 crop were very large and numerous, in the order described by Dr. Brown, and 

 of the size of little oculi cancrorurt}, and of a watery-brown colour; which 

 being so different from the colour of the stomach, that added to the pretty 

 order they are placed in, makes them very remarkable. The crop lay within 

 the thorax, hut so that the gizzard lay higher. The looseness and likeness to 

 flannel, of the inner coat of the gizzard, mentioned by Dr. Brown, was very 

 remarkable in this bird; but the texture in its muscular part did not seem pro- 

 portionably strong to that in other birds, being broader, thinner, and more 

 flaccid. The guts were about l6 yards long. The 2 caecums, which are about 

 34 inches long each, and which have beautiful spiral valves, were appendages 

 of the very beginning of the colon. The testicles lay ris in other fowls, very 

 high, and less than pigeons eggs, but longer. The liver had 4 lobes, but a 

 gall-bladder appeared to be only the membrane of the liver raised by some 

 accident from its inner substance. The gland under the stomach, which Dr. 

 Brown supposes to be the spleen, and the pancreas and kidneys answer his de- 

 scription; and the ureters were, as he says, firm, strong, white, long, and 

 opening into the rectum. The eye is said to be exactly like the human eye, 

 but is indeed a perfect goose-eye for its colour, and probably for the rest of 

 its parts, as they are well described by Mr, Ranby: it was flatter than the 

 human eye, as that of all birds are; and it had that simple look so peculiar to 

 the goose. The bony circle described by Mr. Ranby, this bird has in common 

 with other fowls, both of the water and land, with this difference only, that 

 the ring in water-fowls consists of 15, and in land-fowls only of 14 bones. 

 They are so disposed, that one bone lies over the ends of 2 others, then 3 or 

 4 lie over one another, like the scales of fish ; then 1 bone lies under the 

 ends of 2 others ; and then 2 or 3 more follow again like the scales of fish: 

 but unless there be a lusus naturae, Mr. Ranby's icon seems not to express it 

 so very justly, as it might be done. There was no musculus suspensorius 

 oculi in this animal, nor probably is it to be found among birds, and indeed 

 there seems to be no reason for it. 



The crop was so stuffed with grass or other greens, proper food for a goose, or 

 one of that kind, that probably the bird could not have digested it off, if there 

 had been no other reason for its death. The gizzard was not so stuffed as the 

 crop, and what was therein seemed undigested. The guts contained a thick 

 deep-green juice, even to the cloaca. The money, both of silver and copper in 

 the gizzard, was very remarkably worn away, the edges in particular were made 



