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TURKEY BUZZARD. 



An adult male, also from Charleston. The stomach, Fig. 3, pre- 

 sents the same appearance. The proventricular glands are 2^ twelfths 

 in length, and occupy a belt, a b, 1 inch in breadth, at the upper edge of 

 which are numerous longitudi- Fig- 2. 



nal plicae, having small cellular 

 cavities between them. The in- 

 ner coat, bcde, is thick, rather 

 soft and of a bright red colour, 

 with numerous, principally lon- 

 gitudinal prominent tortuous ru- 

 gae. Numerous hairs, and a few 

 small feathers, are stuck over the 

 surface towards the pyloric ca- 

 vity, which is itself densely and 

 completely covered with hairs of 

 various lengths, the longest 

 being 9 twelfths, all of them 

 with the inserted extremity 

 thick, the other pointed, and of 

 various colours, chiefly greyish-yellow. The epithelium, which is here 

 about 1^ twelfth in thickness, is composed of perpendicular parallel fibres, 

 between or into which the hairs are inserted, and the dense cellular or 



Fig. 3. 



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