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is as usual : the other intestines just make three turns or folds like the 

 duodenum, then hecome more loose ; hut still there is an inclination 

 for a fold, as the edge of the mesentery is irregular or scolloped ; they 

 then pass to the rectum. The cseea are about 4 inches long, and very 

 small, attached to the ileum their whole length, which ileum is attached 

 to the posterior part of the stomach. There is, in the middle of the 

 intestines, a esecum which is about an inch long, which I take to be the 

 remains of the duct of the yolk. The rectum becomes larger at the 

 anus. 



The liver is as usual, only the right lobe is much the longer. The 

 ducts are as in the curlew. The length of the whole intestine is five 

 times the length of the body of the animal. 



Fish scales and bones were found in the stomach. The testicles were 

 very small and yellow. The legs are of a bluish colour, and are naked 

 for near 2 inches above the knee : the skin of the legs is not hard. The 

 flesh is red. There is a sort of downy feathers under the other, but 

 not nearly so thick as in the goose, &e. 



The Curlew [Numenius arquata, Latham], 



A curlew has no crop, but has the muscles arising from the breast as 

 in a hen, which in them pass over the crop ; so that this muscle must 

 be owing to [subservient to the motions of] the skin of the neck. The 

 stomach or gizzard is not so strong as a hen's, but is rather stronger 

 than a pewit's (VaneUus). It was filled with the skins of beetles and 

 the juice extracted from their bodies. There were no stones in it, so 

 that the hard shells of the beetles seemed to supply their place. 



The intestines are not very long; the cseca are about 3 inches in 

 length, and much smaller and thinner than the rectum or ileum. There 

 was a small canal above the rectum, about as big as to admit a probe, 

 and an inch in length. 



The liver is as usual; only the ducts entered the duodenum about 

 half-way between the two bends, separately, so that they were longer 

 than common. The two gall-ducts enter the gall-bladder on one side, 

 and there is a kind of groove going between them. The pancreatic 

 duct entered with the hepatic. 



The Pewit, or a bird that resembled the Pewit in all respects 

 except the colour [Vanellus, Briss.]. 



It is veiy much like the curlew {Numenius) also, but its belly is 

 higher, and is almost black in the fore-part of the neck and breast, 



