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having a little white on some of the feathers there. The legs, feet, 

 head, bill, shape of the body, and manner are just like those of a pewit. 

 There is no crop. The stomach is like that of a pewit. The duodenum 

 is as usual. The first part of the intestines is coiled up within them- 

 selves, in an oblong mass, something like that in the water-hen, but 

 not so regularly. The caeca are about 2 inches in length. There is the 

 swell at the anus [cloaca], and a small canal above the anus about half 

 an inch long. This was a cock, and I imagine I have the hen. 



Ruffs an\d Reeves [Machetes pugnax, Cuv.] . 



These seem to be a good deal of the pewit-kind. The bill is some* 

 thing of that kind, and the legs and feet nearly the same. The feathers 

 of the ruff are inserted close to the head. The tongue is like that of 

 all birds that have long small bills. There is no crop : the stomach is 

 about the thickness of the pewit's, not very red, nor quite pale. The 

 duodenum is as usual : the other intestines make three singular folds, 

 the last of which is the longest by much ; and is again a little folded 

 upon itself, having the two cseca upon the last part of the fold, viz. the 

 third. As this part goes to the root of the mesentery, it must there 

 bend down to the rectum j so . that the rectum is no more than a con- 

 tinuation of this part, which is about an inch and a half long, along the 

 sides of which pass the cseca. These are each about 3 inches long, 

 pretty small, and where the ileum is bent to become rectum, there they 

 are bent likewise, The rectum is a3 usual, becoming large at the 

 anus. There is scarcely any cavity about the anus. There are two 

 penises. The testicles are the size of , and of a yellow colour. 



The ducts of the liver enter the duodenum about an inch from the 

 stomach. The length of the guts is not much more than that of the 

 animal from head to feet, or about four times the length of the trunk. 



The Whistling Plover, or Sea-Pie [H&matopus ostralegus, Linn .] . 



This is a good deal of the shape of the pewit, but is larger. Its legs 

 are red, and part of the thigh is not covered with feathers : like an 

 ostrich or bustard, it has no back-claw. Its bill is about 3 inches long, 

 strong, and but little bent ; it is a little flattened upon the sides, and is 

 red like the legs : the iris is likewise red. There is no crop : the 

 stomach is between a stomach and a gizzard, much about the strength 

 of a pewit's ; it seems to be a continuation of the oesophagus, become 

 considerably thicker, and is I think rather thicker than the gull's. The 

 duodenum is just as in the water-hen, or water-rail. 



