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tuberculaled): on the left side was the gizzard; and on the right, the 

 first portion of the duodenum with the spleen apparent. On turning 

 back the stomach, there appeared, dorsad, the coil of intestines. 



" Beginning with the cesophagus, 1 found it a wide dilatable simple 

 tube, puckered longitudinally within, but these foldings disappeared 

 on dilatation ; lying compressed in situ its breadth was rather more 

 than -i- an inch. Without any previous dilatation or crop, it entered 

 the proventriculus ; its boundary line being u sphincter-like thicken- 

 ing. The whole of the proventriculus was covered internally with 

 small thickly set glands, of a flattened figure ; and its length from the 

 termination of the cesophagus to the gizzard was 4 of an inch. 



"The tongue was tipped with a sharp flat horny point; but I could 

 find no bristles at its apex, as in the Toucans, and as was seen by 

 Mr. Owen in the Corythaix porplujreolopha. Its base was covered 

 with retroverted papillce, which occurred again posterior to the rima 

 glottidis. The pharynx, or opening into the gullet, was beset with 

 numerous glands, the mouths of which were very visible. The trachea 

 was a straight tube ; but soon after commencing it gradually contract- 

 ed, and then gradually dilated for the space of an inch, contracting 

 again, and again dilating as it dipped into the chest. As this pecu- 

 liarity is not noticed by Mr. Owen in the species he dissected, I con- 

 clude that it does not exist in it. The sterno-tracheal muscles con- 

 sisted of a single pair. 



" The liver consisted of two lobes as usual, and beneath the right 

 lay the gall-bladder, of an oblong figure, which I found empty. Its 

 duct, 2 inches in length, entered the duodenum at the first angle, and 

 beneath the body of the pancreas, accompanied by an hepatic duct 

 which entered with it. 



" The pancreas was small, and consisted of a lobulated portion 

 lying on the angle of the duodenum above mentioned, and giving ofl:' 

 a narrow slip along the first portion of the duodenum to which it was 

 closely attached. I could trace two small ducts from it entering near 

 the bile-ducts. The distance of this angle from the gizzard was about 

 l-J- inch. I found the spleen adhering to the gizzard, and between 

 this and the right lobe of the liver. Its figure was oval, its size that 

 of a small nutmeg, its structure soft and evidently disorganized. 



"The heart presented nothing remarkable ; it was subacute and Ij 

 inch long. 



" The muscular parietes of the gizzard were thin ; but this viscui 

 was lined by a leathery membrane of a whitish colour : its length was 

 \\ inch ; its diameter when lying compressed as usual 1^. It con- 

 tained a little undigested vegetable matter. 



"The duodenum, beginning small from a short pyloric canal, as 

 noticed by Mr. Owen, suddenly dilated to 4ths of an inch in dia- 

 meter ; the pyloric canal was corrugated internally, these corruga- 

 tions verging to a sphincter. 



"The small intestines were 1 If inches in length, terminating in a 



