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ORNITHOLOGY. 
“The rima glottidis was surrounded posteriorly by a plane covered with numerous fleshy teeth 
pointed downwards. The stomach was simple and fleshy, and formed a long pouch, with longitudinal 
internal folds. The pyloric orifice was smooth, resembling that in man. The duodenum was larger 
than the other intestines, which form convolutions, turning at acute angles upon one another, and 
connected two and two by the mesentery. The whole canal was void of valvula conniventes, and had 
but few villosities. The contents of the stomach were small in quantity, and of a homogeneous nature, 
dark colour, and somewhat solid consistence. The intestines were filled with a greyish pulpy matter. 
The liver was large and red, filling at least one half of the abdomen ; divided by a deep fissure into 
two lobes, the right being considerably larger than the left. The heart was partly lodged between 
them. The gall-bladder was large and full. About two feet of a slender Tania was taken out of the 
small intestines, where it appeared to be continued, tapering to a fine filament. 
“ The cutaneous muscle of the neck and back was very thick. 
“ One of the ship’s company, in cleaning one of these birds to have it cooked, said he found a bill 
resembling that of the Procellaria, sticking in its gullet.” 
The same species was observed in great numbers in Monterey Bay ; and was seen also at sea 
almost every day of the passage from the Aleutian Islands to California. 
A specimen shot at Monterey, and examined by Mr. Collie, “ extended,” according to his notes, 
“ seven feet eight inches. — The base and edges of the tongue were aculeated. — A long tapering 
gall-bladder lay by the side of a convolution of intestine. There were two cceca of unequal length, 
but very short and very small. Portions of flesh, cartilage and fish, were found in the stomach.” 
