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an inch in length, entered the duodenum at its second turn, where the 

 reflected portion returns to the gizzard. At half an inch from the 

 biliary duct an hepatic duct entered ; and near this two pancreatic 

 ducts: but the pancreas was so disorganized that 1 failed in all en- 

 deavours to make out more. 



"The total length of the small intestines was 2 feet 10 inches j of 

 the large, 5 inches, reckoning from the base of the cceca, which were 

 double, closely adherent to the small intestines, and 7-t inches long. 

 The cloaca, at its entrance into which the large intestine was sur- 

 rounded by a sphincter- liiie valve, was divided by a fold into two 

 portions : beneath this fold entered the ureters and oviduct ; and 

 below and between the ureters was the bursa Fabricii. The upper 

 portion of the cloaca was lined with a villous coat ; but the part below 

 had a smooth mucous lining. The villi o( the large intestine were 

 disposed in longitudinal lines ; but this was not the case in the cloaca, 

 where the villous surface was uniform. The length of the cloaca was 

 1 inch and 5 lines ; its circumference 1^ inch. 



" The gizzard was filled with undigested flesh, feathers, and peb- 

 bles. 



"The intestines were full oi pus, and their villous lining was highly 

 inflamed. 



" In the whole of the visceral arrangement a close affinity may be 

 observed to the Grus tribe. In the Stanley Crane {Anthropoides pa- 

 radiscEus, Bechst.) the intestipes are similarly disposed in folds or loops, 

 and the two cizca, given off 6 inches from the anus, are 4 inches long. 

 In the Stanley Crane, however, the muscular coat of the gizzard is 

 thicker than in the Cariama, being in some parts an inch across, 

 while in the latter bird it is about ^ of an inch j hence there is in this 

 point an index of a less vegetable regimen. In the Stanley Crane, 

 the total length of the intestines is 5 feet 3 inches. In the Cariama, 

 it is 3 feet 5^- inches. 



" In its general aspect the skeleton of the Cariama is very remark- 

 able. The comparative shortness of the neck, the compactness of the 

 chest and stoutness of the ribs, together with the abbreviated condi- 

 tion of the wings, appear as if out of harmony with the length of the 

 limbs, especially of the tibia and tarsus ; while the toes concluding 

 this length of limb are short, the hinder one being situated high and 

 not touching the ground. 



" The skull, as in the Cranes, is arched above, but rises on the 

 vertex to a more abrupt elevation ; the arch in the Stanley Crane 

 being a regular sweep from the base of the upper mandible to the 

 occiput. The orbits are large, and are separated by &\iom septum with 

 a central and posterior perforation and a slight superior fissure. In the 

 Stanley Crane, the central perforation is large and continuous with 

 the posterior ; the superior fissure being also more decided. The supra- 

 orbital process of the lacrymal bone is large, prominent, and directed 

 backwards, as it is in the Stanley Crane. There is also a large pos- 



