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more muscular. The intestines are thicker and more muscular than those 
of Herons, and differ more especially in having two coecal appendages, 
which however are extremely short, whereas the Herons have merely a 
single coecal prominence. 
The heart, g , is remarkably large, 
being 1 inch and 10 twelfths long, 1 
inch and a half in breadth. The lobes 
of the liver, h i, are very large, and- 
about equal, their greatest length 
being 3 inches; the gall-bladder globu- 
lar, 8 twelfths in diameter. One of 
the testes is 11 twelfths long, 9 twelfths 
broad ; the other 10 twelfths by 7 
twelfths ; their great size being ac- 
counted for by the individual’s having 
been killed in the breeding season. 
In a female of much smaller size 
the oesophagus is 15 inches long; the 
stomach 2 inches in length, 1 inch 
and 9 twelfths broad; the intestine 7 
feet 7 inches. The contents of the 
stomach, fishes, shrimps, and frag- 
ments of shells. 
One of the most remarkable devia- 
tions from ordinary forms in this bird 
is the division of the trachea pre- 
vious to its entering the thorax. It 
may be described as very short, a little 
flattened, and quite membranous, the 
rings being cartilaginous and very 
thin. Its diameter at the top is 5 
twelfths, and it is scarcely less at the lower part, where half-way down the 
neck, is formed an inferior larynx, lc, which is scarcely enlarged. The two 
bronchi, l m, l m, are in consequence excessively elongated. They are 
compressed, 5 twelfths in diameter at the commencement, gradually con- 
tracting to 3 twelfths, and enlarging a little towards the end ; and are 
singular in this respect that the rings of the upper fourth are incomplete, the 
tube being completed by membrane in the usual manner, whereas in the 
rest of their extent, the rings are elliptical, entire, stronger, and those at the 
lower part united or anchylosed on the inner side. The rings of the trachea 
are 105, of the two bronchi 73 and 71. The contractor muscles are feeble 
