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there is an external nasal aperture, or nostril, on each side, so small as merely 

 to admit the mystachial bristle of a Common Squirrel. The stomach is of 

 enormous size, occupying three-fourths of the cavity of the thorax and 

 abdomen, being 10 twelfths of an inch long, and of an oval shape. The 

 proventriculus is separated from the stomach and formed into a roundish 

 lobe, as in the old bird; and beside it is the lobe or pouch appended to the 

 stomach, and from which the duodenum comes off. Even at this very early 

 age, the stomach was turgid with a pultaceous mass apparently composed of 

 macerated fish, without any bones or other hard substances intermixed. 



END OP THE SIXTH VOLUME. 



Vol. VI. 62 



