404 CHUCK-WILLS-WIDOW. 



and form a belt about 9 twelfths in breadth. The muscular coat of 

 the stomach is very thin, and composed of strong fasciculi ; the epithe- 

 lium extremely hard, of a homy consistence, with faint longitudinal 

 rugae. The lobes of the liver are nearly equal, and of moderate size. 

 The pylorus is small, with a prominent semilunar margin. The intes- 

 tine, efg, is short and wide, 14 inches long, from 4 twelfths to 3 twelfths 

 in width ; the duodenum curves in the usual manner, returning at the 

 distance of 1 inch 9 twelfths, the rest of the intestine forms only two 

 curves. The coeea, h i i,axe 2 inches long, their greatest width 4twelfths, 

 their extremity rounded, their width at the base for half an inch only 

 1^ twelfth, their distance from the anus 1 inch 9 twelfths. The cloaca, 

 _;', is globular, 1 inch in width. 



The horns of the hyoid bone curve over the occiput until nearly 

 over the middle of the orbits, and are attached to the base of the up- 

 per jaw. The nasal cavity is very long, and has two turbinated bones. 



The brain is extremely small, its length being 8 twelfths, its great- 

 est height 5 twelfths. Its anterior extremity is much rounded, and 

 from its lower anterior part comes off the olfactory nerve, which is at 

 first somewhat bulbiform, and about f twelfths in breadth ; it then 

 enters a bony tube of about the diameter of one-tenth of a twelfth, and 

 which terminates opposite the superior turbinated bone, which is ovate 

 and forms a turn and a half. Besides this, there is anteriorly another 

 turbinated bone. The cavity of the nose communicates behind with 

 a large depressed cavity passing over the palate and beneath the orbit, 

 which being covered beneath with merely the membrane of the mouth, 

 extends all the way to the occiput. The distribution of the first or up- 

 per branch of the fifth pair is as usual. The olfactory nerve is about 

 the size of a human hair, the other about double. 



The trachea is 3 inches 9 twelfths long, a little flattened, of the near- 

 ly uniform breadth of 2i twelfths ; its rings extremely feeble, and unos- 

 sified, about 80 in number, the lower very narrow, with 3 large dimi- 

 diate rings. The bronchi are moderate, of about 15 half rings. The 

 lateral muscles are strong, as are especially the sterno-tracheal ; a slip 

 from the lateral muscles proceeds a short way beyond the sterno-trache- 

 al, but does not extend to the end of the trachea, so that in reality there 

 are no inferior laryngeal muscles. 



The stomach was distended with a mass consisting chiefly of re- 

 mains of insects, but also of numerous feathers, together with the lower 



