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AMERICAN CROW. 



mencement, passes along 

 the right side of the neck 

 until it enters the tho- 

 rax, and has its walls 

 of moderate thickness, 

 with external transverse 

 fibres. The proventri- 

 ciilar glands are very 

 small, and form a belt 7^ 

 twelfths in breadth. The 

 stomach, def, is 1^ inch 

 long, 1 inch 5 twelfths 

 broad, of a roundish form, 

 considerably compres- 

 sed; its lateral muscles 

 large ; being about a 

 quarter of an inch thick, 

 its tendons, e, also large 

 and radiating, their 

 transverse diameter ^ 

 inch; the cuticular lining 

 thick, dense, of a dark 

 reddish-brown colour, 

 with broad longitudinal 

 rugae. The intestine, 

 f g hi, forms a curve 

 at the distance of 2^ in- 

 ches, bends forwards to- 

 ward the right lobe of the 

 liver, then forms four cir- 

 cular convolutions, and 

 terminates in the rectum. 

 Its length is 29 inches, 

 its width 4^ twelfths in 

 the duodenal portion, 

 and 4 twelfths in the rest 



