286 SCANSORES. 



Bird, of the Toucan-kind, from New Holland 1 [Scythrops 

 Australasia, Shaw]. 



It has no crop ; the stomach is rather of the gizzard kind, but not 

 strong ; it is not above -1-th of an inch thick ; the cuticle is pretty strong 

 or hard. The duodenum is short, and makes but one fold upon itself. 

 The jejunum is also short, having a pretty broad mesentery on the right 

 side, not making a regular sweep where the intestine is attached ; but a 

 scollop or an attempt to two little folds on itself, as — 

 The ileum also is short, makes only one fold, which 

 is about the centre of the abdomen, and in the 

 direction to the last fold of which, are attached the 

 caeca. The caeca are pretty long, being the length 

 of the fold of the jejunum, and are pretty thick or wide. The colon, or 

 what should be called the rectum, passes directly to the anus. The liver 

 is rather small ; the left lobe is rather smaller than common. Between 

 the two lobes are the cells for the air. The pancreas is also but small : 

 it is short, on account of the duodenum being short. The contents of 

 the stomach were beetles, and a seed which was bruised and broke. 

 There were no stones in the stomach. 



In the female were several yolks of a pretty large size ; it is therefore 

 a bird that hatches several young ones at a brood. The testicles of 

 the male were pretty large, therefore both must have been caught in 

 the breeding season. They are a pretty plump bird, broad and short, 

 with a short sternum. In length of wing and tail they come nearest 

 to the hawk. 



The Woodpecker [Picus viridis, Linn.]. 

 The woodpecker has a very long tongue, about 2| inches, and often 

 it is capable of being thrown forwards to that length. When brought 

 back into the bill it is enclosed in a kind of prepuce. There are muscles 

 for these purposes ; and to answer the motion that must be in proportion 

 to the length of the tongue, the horns of the os hyoides are made long, 

 so that they pass round behind the head, and come over the upper p art 

 of the head as far as the beginning of the beak. At the end of the 

 tongue, which is very small, there is a little bit of horn, with which it 

 is, as it were, tipped 2 . 



The Wry-neck [Yunx torquilla, Linn.]. 

 This bird is like the woodpecker, by having no caeca ; and the feet of 



1 [Temminck called the Scythrops an ' anomalous hornbill.'] 



2 [Hunt. Preps. Phys. Series, Nos. 1477 — 1479 : the beak of the woodpecker is 

 No. 311.] t 



