Of Birds. 
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C<xca. The fird or Ampltan, a foot long ; and above ? of 
an inch broad. The Gracile, which reachcth to the Case a, 
a foot and three inches 5 and above i of an inch where nar¬ 
rowed. ^ In this Gut, arc 1 5 or 1 <5 Contractions, hire thofe 
in a Cats, but made longer. 
Th cCaca, fourunc'hes and I long. As the Gizard of a 
middle Nature, fo thefe of a middle fize, betwixt thofe of 
fome Carnivorous, and fome Frugivorom Birds. At their 
clofe or further ends, '• an inch over. But where they en¬ 
ter the Rectum, no thicker than the biged firing of a Trebel 
Vial. 
The Rectum, three inches long 5 towards the Anus, near 
an inch wide 5 almoft in the Figure of a little Pear. As it is 
alfo in mod Wild-Fowl. 
Of a young Cucbpm. 
Neither hath this Bird any Crop, nor a Gizard. But to 
the Gulet it is peculiar, That it hath Ten or Twelve Rows 
of more confpicuous Glands, which run along from the 
Throat to the Echinus. 
The Echinus, of a ratable bignefs, and more didindl 
from the Stomach, than in the Owle 3 being divided from 
it by a Mufcular Neck. As it is alfo in mod other Birds. 
The Stomach, a plain Bag, much like to that of an Owle ; 
yet fomewhat thicker, and more Tendinous. 
The Guts about a foot and I long. Three befides the 
Caeca. The fird, an inch and < long 5 and near ?of an inch 
wide. The fecond, above a foot, and * th wide. The Caeca, 
as wide in the middle, as the fird 5 and above an inch long! 
The Rectum, two inches and ;. 
The Wild-Duck, and Teal alfo, and I fuppofe all of this 
kind, and mod other Birds, are without a Crop. 
Of a Dunghill-Coc^. 
A DUNGHILL-COCK, hath one Stomach or Ventricle 
more than the former Birds, fc. a Crop: all over be- 
fprinkled with fmall Glands, fomewhat more vifible than in 
the Gulet. 
The upper part of the Gulet, leading to the‘Crop, I of an 
E inch 
