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The Golden-eye Duck \_Anas clangula, Linn.]. 



In a pied sea-fowl, about the size of a duck, with yellow legs, and a 

 bill very thick at the root, of the shape of that of a common goose, but 

 with the head of a duck, there is something very uncommon in the 

 trachea, which somewhat resembles a crop ; and there is a bony swelling 

 at the division of the trachea as in a duck, but larger. The contents of 

 the abdomen were like a swan's. 



The Smew [Mergus albellus, Cuv.]. 



It is a pied bird about the size of a widgeon, with black legs and 

 narrow bill : this has a bent point which is white, viz. that part which 

 might be called the nail of the bill ; it is turned very sharply over the 

 under part of the bill. 



Its stomach is not much stronger than a bittern's, so that it is not a 

 gizzard : it had some stones in it. 



The duodenum is as usual : the jejunum is loose : the ileum is folded 

 upon itself by two folds, which are united to one another. There 

 is only one caecum, as in a bittern. 



The West Indian Pelican [Pelecanus fuscus, Ed.]. 



The nostril is a slit in a groove between the upper and side parts of 

 the horn of the bill, just before the true skin of the head. This slit is 

 hardly visible ; it is only known by blowing into the posterior nares, the 

 air escaping that way. The stomach is rather a stomach than gizzard ; 

 it is oblong, much in the direction of the oesophagus, with a little curve, 

 smallest at the lower end : it makes a quick turn and swells again into 

 a round bag ; or, it may be supposed that from the side near the lower 

 or smaller end is attached a bag whence the duodenum arises 1 . The 

 duodenum is a fold of the intestine similar to that in other birds ; it 

 then makes another fold similar to the above, but shorter. The re- 

 mainder of the small intestines are strung on the edge of the mesentery 

 in pretty deep scollops or folds, some of which are longer than others ; 

 but the last is the largest or longest, and, becoming more attached to the 

 root of the mesentery, it then goes down to commence the rectum. 



The cseca are about 1| inch long. The liver has two lobes, the left 

 very small. The bile in the gall-bladder was not green as in birds, but 

 fellowish. The pancreas is as usual in birds. The spleen was large. 

 The lungs appear to be small for the size of the bird ; they do not come 



1 [Hunt. Preps. Pliys. Series, Nos. 519, 582.] 



