316 GRALLATORES. 



The other intestines are nearly the same as in that bird, only there 

 are more turns. The caeca are the same ; so is the anus. I found no 

 caecum [bursa Fabricii] to the anus. 



The liver is as usual : the two duets enter close by one another, but 

 do not communicate at the last turn of the duodenum. The pancreatic 

 ducts are two in number, entering close by the others, one on each side, 

 as it were, enclosing them. 



The testes are round bodies, of a yellow colour, lying upon the 

 capsulae renales, which are of a red colour. 



This bird seems to be much of the water-rail, but its stomach is not 

 strong. 



The Water-Rail [Gallinula chloropus, Latham], 



This bird is about the size of a pewit, but is not so round in the 

 body, being very thin or narrow: its legs are, however, stronger and 

 natter. It seems to be of the rail -kind ; the bill is of that form ; so 

 are the legs, being broad and thin, with very long toes for a bird of 

 that kind, tipped with pretty strong nails, and the skin of the toe near 

 the sole on each side forms a border, which is harder than any other 

 part of the skin of the toe. 



They eat fish, like all wading water-fowl ; but eat com in common. 

 There is no crop. The stomach is nearly of the strength of that of a 

 common fowl ; and had stones and grass in it. The fold of the duo- 

 denum is pretty long, passing to the lower part of the abdomen : it 

 passes to the left, and then up a little upon the left. The other intes- 

 tines are a good deal like those of a swan ; and I think entirely so. 

 They are almost wholly bent upon one another, so that they run 

 parallel to each other. At the last turn of the duodenum, the gut 

 passes down, and then is bent up, alongside of the duodenum ; after 

 which it passes down upon the inside of this turn, and is bent upon 

 itself; then passes down upon this bend, and when got to the lower 

 part, turns round with it in a contrary direction, joining the duodenum 

 and passing down with it towards its second bend, but not so far ; the 

 gut then becomes irregular, or a little loose, behind these turns at then- 

 lower end. It then passes up again to the upper part of these turns and 

 is suddenly bent back, and about -|ths of an inch from this, it forms the 

 rectum, which passes in a straight line to the anus. The caeca are not 

 long, passing parallel to the very last turns of the ileum as low as the 

 loose part of the intestine ; and indeed their tips are a little serpentine 

 according to these irregular turns. The rectum becomes larger at the 

 anus ; and there is a caecum to the anus, about an inch long, and small. 



This was a cock, the testes lying upon the capsulae renales being 



