murphy: report on the south Georgia expedition. loi 
the opening- of the ureters.'' This bursa o-raduallv disa])- 
pears as the bird nears aduh life, and its ])hysi()l<)ti-y is not fully 
understood. 
Neither tlie icolfiiaii bodies nor the adrenals jjresent anything' 
peculiar, or beyond what is alreadx- known to obtain in the 
yotnig- of the Phalacrocoracidcc. 
The .\-//;(;// iiitcsfiiic is. from the ])ro\'entriculus to the anal 
a[)erture. of rather --niall and uniform caliber: it has a total 
length of 28.5 centimeters. Whether the intestinal caccv are 
present at this age it is difficult to say : I searched for them but 
without success: if present, thev must be verv small and prol)- 
abl\- functionless. 
As before statetl, the slamach is, com])arativel_\' speaking, 
very larg-e, and possesses, as ;i whole, an ellipsoidal 
form wdien filled with food, as in the ])resent instance. The 
(Vso/^hagus enters it s(|uarely at the middle, anteriorly — that is, 
at the fore-end of the long axis of the organ, while the ;^ut 
(|nits it posteriorlv. at a jxiint anterior to its binder rounded 
extremit}-. As to its walls, they are extremeh- thin: bardh- at 
all muscular, and quite translucent when held up to the light. 
In the ])resent instance, the organ was filled, almost to the 
limit of its capacity. In- the remains of a slightly digested fish, 
of about the size of a small sardine. L'nfortunatelv, the sktill 
had all come a])art, and was mixed up in such a way that it 
was impossible to disco\-er what species of lish it was. or 
whether it was one known to science. The entire and articu- 
lated vertebral si)ine was i)erfect and extremely delicate in 
structure. There is no (|uestion as to its fieing a small 
teleosteon form with thirt\-seven \erlebr;e: slender neural 
spines, and a t;iil resembling that of a I'linduliis. 
■Forbes, \Vm. Ai.e.x. Coll Sei, Papers, p. 11, 18S5. 
