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Meckel's tract exhibits first three distinct minor loops, and then is prolonged axially, 

 bearing at its extremity a Meckel's diverticulum. The posterior part of the tract has one 

 or two minor loops and a large supra-duodenal loop with two " bridging " veins. Then 

 comes a large supra-caecal kink. The caeca are vestigial, and the rectum is short and 

 straight. Another Circus (the species of which was not identified), Clrcaetus gallicus, 

 and Helotarsus ecaudatus all exhibited precisely the same conformation. 



Fig. 29. 



Intestinal Tract of Gypohierax angolensis. Lettering as before. 



(4) Aquilinee. 1 have examined Aquila audax, A. chrysaetus, A. Verreauxi, Morphnus 

 guianensin* Spizactus coronatus, and jHaliaetus albicilla and H. leucogaster. I have 

 already described the conformation of the gut in the White-tailed Sea-Eagle (26. fig. 12). 

 The duodenum is very long, being thrown into a complicated system of secondary folds. 

 Meckel's tract, also, is much elongated and its greater part is composed of a series of 

 short irregular loops suspended at the periphery of an oval stretch of mesentery, the apex 



