( ii6 ) 
Other Name, I will call it the Receptaculum Tenis^ be- 
caufe therein the Penis was always Joeiged when 
flaccid. I know, that Part is called by Dr. Brown, a 
kind of Prcepuce ; but upon DifledUon, it appeared plain 
enough to me to be a very ftrong Mufcle compos’d of 
circular Fibres, and to be deflgned for a SphindFer of 
that Part wherein the Penis was to be lodg’d, and to be 
a Sphinderof the Return too; round which I traced 
the fame Mufcle above an Inch ; and this being but 
one Mufcle, mull be the reafon that the Penis always 
came out feme Inches when it muted, as they told me 
it did. The Penis, flaccid as it is, is five Inches and 
an half long from the Skin of that Receptaculum, and, 
as Dr. Harvey fays, not unlike an Hart’s Tongue. I 
don’t find a Cartilage in it, as Dr. Brown fuggefts ; but 
at its Origination it is fo hard a Body, that, I believe, 
if the Bird had liv’d fome Years, it polTibly might have 
become Cartilaginous. There are two Bodies that are 
join’d to the Qrura Penis, which I fufped to be the Fe- 
ficulre feminales ; and the more, becaufe there are two 
Veflels enter them, which 1 believe to be the' Fa fa De- 
ferentia j but of this I am not certain : For tho’ I found 
Semen in the Urethra, I have not been able to trace a- 
PalTage from thefe fuppofed Vejiculce feminales, or thofe 
Veflels, or any other Part into the Urethra. I call it 
Urethra, becaufe there is no other Term fix’d that I 
know of, tho’ the Urine does not pafs that way; but, 
as in other Birds, is mix’d with the grolfer Excrements 
in the Cloaca, The Urethra then, is only a Sulcus, or 
Gutter, from one end of the Penis to the other ,* which 
Sulcus, as the Penis lies flaccid in the Receptaculum, as 
I venture to call it, lies on one fide ; but upon Erecti- 
on, the Penis turns towards the Belly, and the Sulcus 
is then at the Top, and lies conveniently enough for 
Conveyance of the Semen. If thofe two Bodies are 
not the k^eficula feminales (as I mention’d befbrej they 
muft 
