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2 inches. The toes are long, and of a green colour ; and the claw of 

 the middle toe is serrated. The skin in general is of a dark colour. 

 There are six glandular parts on the skin ; two of which are behind 

 the upper part of each thigh-bone, between it and the rump; two on 

 the inside of each thigh, just where the skin of the belly joins the 

 thigh ; two, one on each side of the breast lying along the merry- 

 thought bone. These six glandular parts are not of the same colour ; 

 their ducts open upon the skin, and contained a thick matter. 



Upon the skin of the abdomen and thigh, there were small knobs 

 filled with a reddish-yellow fluid ; but as these were not regular on each 

 side, I imagined them to proceed from disease. 



The liver is as common, only the vena cava is long between the liver 

 and diaphragm. The gall-bladder is oblong, lying 

 upon its ducts and duodenum. The ducts enter a 

 little below the last turn of the duodenum along 

 with the pancreatic duet. 



The stomach is an oblong body, somewhat like the 

 figure annexed; with a small middle tendon 1 . The 

 duodenum makes the usual turns. The small intes- 

 tines become loose, making only deep scollops which 

 appear like folds. There is but one caecum, and the 

 rectum is as usual. There is a bag [bursa Fabricii] 

 above the anus, opening into it [the cloaca]. I found 

 beetles in the stomach, but no fish. 



The Spoon-bill [Platalea leucorodia,\Arm.~\. 



This bird is about the size of a heron, and is all white excepting the 

 bill and legs, which are of a dirty or dark grey. The oesophagus ter- 

 minates in a round bag, somewhat flattened, like a Cheshire cheese. 

 The duodenum is as usual; the jejunum makes a fold similar to that of 

 the duodenum ; then becomes a loose intestine ; and, before it passes 

 down the back, it makes another fold similar to the first. The trachea, 

 after it has passed into the thorax, makes a turn up, then goes down 

 again. 



The Flamingo [Phoenicopterus ruber, Linn.] . 

 This bird was shot in the East Indies, and sent home in spirits. 



The tongue is of a pecxdiar shape, answering to the shape of the 

 cavity of the beak 2 . It is oily, and the oil is of an orange colour, and 

 smells like train-oil : this probably is owing to the bird's eating fish. 



1 [Hunt. Prep. Phys. Series, No. 522.] 2 [lb. Nos. 1470, 1471.] 



