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into the posterior nares above the soft i)alate, as in other Marsupiata. 

 'I'hcre were two large cuneiform cartilages. There was also a small 

 sacatlus beneath the epiglottis. 



The soft palate terminated in a thin arched margin. The tonsils 

 were oblong. The parotid glands were of moderate size and 

 branched, and there was on each of them a small conglobated gland. 

 The submaxillary glands were flattened, of the size of nutme"-s, and 

 situated in front of the neck. There was no sublingual gland. A 

 thick row of labial glands extended along the lower lip. The tongue 

 measured 3 inches in length, and had, at the distance of 1 inch from 

 the epiglottis, three iossnlate papilla. The thyroid glands were se- 

 parate, each of them being of the size of a horse-bean. 



The supra-renal glands were oblong, of the size of horse-beans, 

 and placed anterior to the kidneys : on a section they exliibited a 

 light-coloured exterior layer, then a very dark-coloured substance, 

 and internally became again light-coloured. The kidneys were 

 seated high in the lumbar region, the right being half an inch higher 

 than the left. Each had one pointed papilla. The weight of both 

 was 13 drachms. 



The ovaries, 3 lines in length and half a line in breadth, were of a 

 flattened oval shape. In the right there w^as an ovisac coming for- 

 ward. 



There were two masseter muscles. The flexor longus digit arum 

 pedis, or its analogue, was inserted into the fibula, and sent no ten- 

 don to the toes, the tendons to them being derived from the muscle 

 analogous to the flexor longus pollicis pedis : it is consequently a ro- 

 tator of the fibula, and is described by Home as a peculiar muscle in 

 the Koala. 



The morbid appearances observed consisted of su" all tubercles in 

 the lungs and small cysts in the liver. There was a general increased 

 vascularity over the alimentary canal ; and the intestines contained 

 bits of straw and bloody mucus. 



Mr. Owen also read his Notes on the Anatomy of the red-backed 

 Pelican of Dr. Latham, Pelecanus rufescens, Gmel. 



" The following notes were made on the dissection of one of the 

 smaller-sized grey Pelicans, which died at the Society's Gardens in 

 April 1832. They are now brought forward in order that they may 

 be compared with the results of the dissection of the one wliich took 

 place at its Museum a few days ago. 



" The Pelican which I dissected measured 3 feet 7 inches from the 

 extremity of the beak to the vent, and 10-i- inches from the extre- 

 mity of the upper mandible to the nostrils. These are almost con- 

 cealed slits in the lateral grooves of the upper mandible, just anterior 

 to the skin of the head. They will barely admit the flat end of a 

 probe ; and lead almost vertically to the internal apertures of the 

 nasal cavity. The air-cells in the Pelican, as in the nearly allied 

 ^?Vrfthe Gannet, Sula Bassana, Temm., are remarkably extended and 

 diffused over the body : the whole cellular tissue, even to the tips of 



