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tongue very short and fleshy. Two coeca, excessively voluminous and 

 convoluted, and of a greater diameter than the rectum, from which 

 they arise about eight inches from the vent. Gizzard large, quite 

 muscular, containing grasshoppers and other insects, some grass, small 

 roots, and seeds, spikes of Scirpi, &c., but no lizards nor other reptiles. 



" Two large external glands at base of throat, and a mass of glands 

 at base of oesophagus. Plates of the tarsus both before and behind 

 strongly defined, and reminded me of the ventral plates of a serpent. 

 Well-defined plates also on the phalanges above. A young bird." 



We find no specimen in the collection of the Expedition. 



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