The Stomachs and Guts. 
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The Greater Gut a foot long, and near * ths of an inch 
where widcft. The {lender Gut above 1 a yard long, and 
not much above *‘ h of an inch over where fmalleft. The 
Caeca not more than * of an inch long, nor thicker than a 
Kniting-Pin. Placed about an inch above the Rettum, 
The Return near ? of an inch wide, and an inch and i lone. 
Of a Jacbflaiv. 
The Gulet above {an inch over at the top; * at the bot¬ 
tom 5 being Conick, all the way, as in moll Birds. 
The Gizard, above 1 of an inch over, an inch and i long, 
and very Tendinous. The Guts a foot and? long. The 
firlf or Greater, i of a foot 5 and i of an inch wide. The 
fmaller. Ten inches long, and fomewhat more than * of an 
inch over. The Helium, two inches long, and above { an 
inch over 5 fhaped like the end of a Plummers fodering Iron. 
The Caeca, not much above '• of an inch long, and very 
fmall. 
All along the {lender Gut, and in part of the Recium, the 
chief Mufailar Fibers are moll curioufly Indented', as in the 
Mole 5 efpecialy near the Caeca. Not ill refembling the 
Needle-Work called Irifb-Stitch. 
Tranfverfe to thefe Fibers which make the Indentures,and 
which are continu’d by the length of the Gut, run others of 
the fame colour, round about it 5 one of them to every In¬ 
denture, which it divides into two equal parts. 
The fame Indented-Work, is feen in mod other fmaller 
Birds, as well as here,, but not every where after the fame 
manner, nor in the fame place. In the Twite or Avicida 
■ Anadavadenfts, it continues alfo very far, fc. four inches 
above the Caeca. In the Redjart, above three. And in the 
Titlark■> as far. In the Water-Wagtaile, not above two and 
' 5 and an inch below them. In the Solitary-Sparrow, they 
are alfo very pretty below the Caeca. In the Houje-Sp arrow, 
they are vifiblc only in the fmall Gut an inch and * above 
the ( ceca. In the Chaffinch, only in the Recium. 
The Gulet of a Jay, being contracted in the middle, is 
divided into two {lender Venters, as the Guts of fome Ani¬ 
mals. So alfo is that ot a Japan Peacock. 
The Recium of a Jay, hath feveral Mufcular Plates , or 
Valvulce 
