478 ICELAND OR JER FALCON. 
out horny epithelium, but irregularly rugous, especially towards the pylo- 
rus, which has three knobs or valves. The intestine, 427%, is 863 inches 
long, 5 twelfths in diameter at its anterior 
part, gradually contracting to 4 twelfths 
The rectum is 33 inches long, 3 inch in 
diameter at the commencement; the 
coeca 2 twelfths long, 13 twelfth in dia- 
meter; the cloaca, /m, globular. The right 
lobe of the liver is 2 inches 4 twelfths 
long, the left 2 inches 1 twelfth; the 
gall-bladder large. 
The crop or dilatation of the cesopha- 
gus was nearly filled by two excrescences 
from its inner surface, of a soft spongy 
texture, but not ulcerated, or in any part 
scirrhous. The inner surface of the sto- 
mach was similarly affected, but in a 
much less degree, and the pyloric region 
was indurated. The intestines quite 
sound. 
The trachea, mn 0, is 6 inches long, con- 
siderably flattened, 54 twelfths in breadth 
at the upper part, gradually diminishing 
to 4 twelfths. Its rings, about 78 in 
number, are ossified, the last large, di- 
vided, arched, and with a broad mem- 
brane, 0, intervening between them and 
the first bronchial ring. 'The lateral or 
contractor muscles, p, are very strong, as 
are the sterno-tracheal, g7, and there is a 
single pair of inferior laryngeal mus- 
wm 
cles, s, inserted into the membrane between the last ring of the trachea 
and the first of the bronchi. The bronchial half rings 15, slender and 
cartilaginous. 
