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fuppofe td have a different formation from the com- 
mon ftandard of a ftrait wind-pipe. 
In this bird, being of the crane kind, the pipe runs 
down in company with the oefophagus, to about a 
foot in length, and then turns outwards and forwards, 
as it does in the fwan and crane, and enters into the 
keel of the fternum, which, like the others, forms a 
bony box for its reception, through a ligamentous hole 
for about three inches : then it returns upwards, and 
a round turn into the thorax terminating in bronchia 
and lungs. 
Now, in the Indian cock mentioned, the plication 
is made above the fternum, in a roomy part between 
the jugal bones j whereas, in the others mentioned, the 
plication is within the keel of the fternum. 
The other birds I find any account of, haying the 
afpera arteria folded, are only two, and of thefe our 
information is very fhort. 
In Dr. Fryers’s account of India and Perfia, 
where he treats of his defcription of Surat and his 
journey into Duccan, page 1 19, I find the fol- 
lowing paflage : “ Fifti, oifters, foies, and Indian 
<f mackerel, the river yields very good; and the pools 
f< and lakes ftore of wild fowl ; particularly brand 
“ geefe, colum, and ferafs, a fpecies of the former ; 
<c in the cold weather, they, fhunning the northern 
<c rigid blafts,come yearly hither from mount Cauca- 
“ fus ; what is worth taking notice of, is their afpera 
" arteria wound up in a cafe on both fides their breaft- 
“ bone, in manner of a trumpet, fuch as our waits 
t£ ufe: when it is fingle, it is a ferafs; when double, 
“ it is a colum, making a greater noife than a 
E e 2 “ bittern, 
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