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pass into the duodenum before the duodenum makes its last turn just 

 opposite its beginning. The gall-bladder was divided into pretty nearly 

 equal portions ; or, in other words, there were two of them, having a 

 duet passing between them about f-ths of an inch in length ; both lie 

 upon the duodenum, as common 1 . 



The Turkey {Meleagris Gallopavo, Linn.] . 



The nigrum pigmentum is both on the outside and inside of the 

 choroid coat : the outer pigment is intermixed with the uniting cellular 

 membrane : the inner is a distinct coat 2 . 



The Guinea Fowl [Numida Meleagris, Linn.]. 



The guinea-fowl has a crop, the other parts of the alimentary canal 

 are as in the swan ; the ducts of the liver are as in the heron, only that 

 they unite before they enter, and join the duct of the pancreas. [But 

 see the more careful dissection which follows.] The colon was filled 

 with the white urine its whole length. One of the cseca was inverted 

 into the colon by a kind of volvulus. 



On opening the body I found all the viscera covered with a white 

 substance like chalk that had been a little wetted ; the heart and peri- 

 cardium were the same ; so were all the joints, and, in short, every 

 cavity in the body. I found the kidneys of a most beautiful colour, 

 spotted with white, and the natural colour of the kidneys. This white 

 was the urine which had filled all the cryptse, and from them some of 

 the tubuli ; but there was very little of it in the ureters, and none of it 

 in the rectum. This urine was of the same consistence with the white 

 stuff in the cavities of the body, and I do imagine it was a deposit of 

 urine in all the cavities in the body from a wrong turn given to the 

 secretion. I conclude that this animal did not evacuate urine, from 

 none being found in the rectum and but little in the ureters. What is 

 the state of the urine in gouty people, or do they make less than 

 common ? Can we call this a kind of gout ? The urine from this 

 account is first deposited into the cryptse, and then the tubes take it 



1 [Hunt. Prep. Phys. Series, No. 817. The description of this preparation states 

 that "The gall-bladder is of a remarkably elongated and tortuous form. The 

 hepatic duct, being greatly dilated, resembles a second gall-bladder." — Physiol. 

 Catalogue, 4to, vol. i. p. 241.] 



2 [Phys. Series, No. 1748. Hunter has also left the following preparations of the 

 anatomy of the turkey : — the gizzard, No. 528; the kidney, No. 1196 ; the coloured 

 rete mucosum, Nos. 1880, 1881.] 



