the Flying Fifh. 797 
and a receiving hollowed fubftance on the fore part, both 
plentifully armed with fmall tenter hooks, pointing 
backward. They feem to have no remarkable dilatation 
in the canal of the bowels, in the manner of a flomach ; 
but one tube paffes direitly from the mouth to the anus, 
on the upper or anterior part of which lies the heart; 
on the lower or pofterior the liver and gall-bladder; and 
on the fides of this lafl are fituated the rows, which con- 
fift of two lobes. On each fide, and at fome little dis- 
tance from the heart, is a pale alh-coloured fubftance, 
Somewhat refembling the lungs of fmall birds, which 
feem to join at the back, and to run united all along the 
hollow depreffion there as far as the anus. Thefe parts 
were fo very tender, and fo little fit for examination with 
the hands or knife, that it was impoflible for me to dis- 
cover their ufe, or to trace any communication they 
might have with the throat. 
Noftrils they have, and I could pafs a hog’s brittle 
through them, by the palate, into the mouth. 
In the recent ones the abdomen was near two-thirds 
full of air. At the bails of the fkull I found two little 
flat fnow-coloured bones, irregular and rough, fuch as 
we find in cod and many other fea fifhes. 
Upon examining the wings after being fome time ex- 
pofed to the air, I find they become fo dry, and the fine 
thin 
