TURKEY BUZZARD. 



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Fig. 1. 



form a part of the organization of the stomach, and not to be, like the 

 hairs found in that of Cucu- 

 lus canorus,ax\6. Coccyzns Ame- 

 ricanus, merely extraneous, 

 in which birds besides they 

 occupy the whole surface, 

 and are disposed in a circu- 

 lar manner, most of them, 

 moreover, being abruptly 

 broken. 



The duodenum, g h i j, 

 curves at first in the usual 

 manner at the distance of 2^ 

 inches, but in ascending to- 

 wards the liver forms apartial 

 curve. The intestine forms 

 eight double folds, and is 5 

 feet 9 inches long, its ave- 

 rage diameter above being 5 

 twelfths, contracting to 3^ 

 twelfths, and again towards 

 the rectum enlarging to 6 

 twelfths. The rectum is 

 short, the cloaca globular, 

 and only 1 inch in diameter, 

 and there are no cosca. 



The trachea is 8 inches 

 long, much flattened, taper- 

 ing from 6 twelfths in breadth 

 to 4 twelfths ; its rings 150, 

 partially ossified. The in- 

 ferior larynx is remarkable 

 for its small size, for being much flattened, and for branching off into 

 the bronchi without having a septum in its last entire ring. Beyond the 

 bifurcation are on each side 8 cartilaginous slender rings, the remaining 

 part of the bronchi being entirely membranous. The lateral muscles 

 are of considerable strength, and cover the anterior surface of the tra- 

 chea until they terminate in the steruo-trachealis. There are no in- 

 ferior laryngeal muscles. 



