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MB. F. E. BEDDARD ON THE ANATOMY 



[Jan. 15^ 



is, in fact, a feature of this species as contrasted with those that 

 have been mentioned. It will be observed in the figure (text-fig. 11) 

 that the lung terminates in a ceecum which continues in the same 

 straight line. This seems to be the case also with other species. It 

 suggests, of course, the distal terminal air-sac (abdominal air-sac) 



Text-fig. 10. 



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r" 





Liiiig of Chamceleon verrucosus, entire. 



of the bird's lung. The arrangement of the other cseca is shown 

 in the figure referred to. They are developed along a considerable 

 region of the ventral margin of the lung. The larger number of 

 the c?eca are, however, massed at one spot, which is not at the end 

 of the lung as in Gh. jmrvilobus, but at about its middle. Another 



