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AMERICAN FLAMINGO. 



width at the upper part, and diminishes to 2^ twelfths. At the lower 

 part of the neck however it enlarges into a crop, cde, 3| inches long and 

 Fig. 1. Fig. 3. 



21 inches in its greatest width. On entering the thorax, the oesophagus 

 has a diameter of 9 twelfths; the proventriculus. Fig. 2, abc, enlarges to 

 an ovate sac, 1^ inch in its greatest hreadth. The stomach, def, is a very 

 muscular gizzard, of an elliptical form, placed obliquelj^ and exactly 

 resembling that of a Duck or Goose ; its length 1 inch 7 twelfths, its 

 breadth 2 inches 3 twelfths. Its lateral muscles are extremely de- 

 veloped, the left being 1 inch 1 twelfth thick, the other 1 inch ; the 

 epithelium thick, tough, brownish-red, marked with longitudinal coarse 

 grooves, but not flattened on the two surfaces, opposite the muscles, as 

 is the case in Ducks and Geese. The proventricular glands are very 

 large, and occupy a belt If inch in breadth. The contents of the sto' 



