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it has a mesentery common to both, which being shorter than that 

 connected to the intestines, throws the intestines into an irregular 

 sweep. Along the loose or unconnected edge of the common mesentery 

 pass the blood-vessels, throwing out their branches laterally along the 

 mesentery to the intestines. This fold of the intestine is again folded 

 upon itself so as to shorten it ; but these folds are not attached. The 

 intestine, after having made this fold upon itself, sets out from the root 

 of the mesentery a second time, and makes another which is about 6 or 

 7 inches in length, and a good deal similar to the duodenal fold, and 

 about half an inch distant : in the centre, between the two, pass the 

 blood-vessels, ramifying laterally into the two portions of intestines. 

 After finishing this last turn the intestine passes down the back, and 

 may be called rectum. The setting off of the two last turns, as also of 

 the rectum, is from the root of the mesentery. At the anus there is a 

 considerable reservoir. This account of the intestine corresponds very 

 much with the pigeon (vide Comparison between the dove and pigeon, 

 page 288). 



There is no caecum. The pancreas is a single body, bent or folded 

 upon itself at the upper part, or it is made up of two bodies united at 

 the upper part, lying in the folds of the duodenum ; one portion upon one 

 side of the uniting mesentery of the duodenum, the other on the other 

 side. The anterior portion becomes larger downwards ; and sends from 

 near its lower end two ducts which pass to the duodenum after that 

 gut has finished its two turns, and enter it close to one another, near 

 an inch from the entrance of the duct of the liver. This posterior 

 pancreas sends a duct up to the duodenum, about an inch before that gut 

 terminates in the jejunum which enters the duodenum there. 



The liver is divided into two nearly equal lobes. There is no gall- 

 bladder. There are two hepatic ducts which come out of the porta of 

 the liver ; one a little towards the left, the other a little towards the 

 right: that from the left is the larger. They pass in between the 

 two folds or turns of the duodenum, closely connected to one another, 

 and are continued down between these folds to the lower curve : that 

 nearest to the left enters the duodenum hardly half an inch beyond that 

 bend, close by the lower duct from the anterior pancreas. 



The contents of the crop were tinged of a yellowish green, but had 

 no bitter taste ; the mucus adhering to them had the same colour. The 

 contents of the gizzard were of a pretty dark green, and very bitter. 

 The gizzard was full of stones. The contents of the beginning of the 

 duodenum was of a yellowish green, but not bitter to the taste. The 

 contents of the jejunum were ash-coloured, both before the entrance of 

 the biliary ducts and after. The trachea is flattened ; [its transverse 



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