The Anatomical Description

this fleshie Membrane had neither the thickness nor hardness which is ordi-narily remarked in the Gizzard of Birds. And it is probable that this partwas thus fleshie and Musculcus, to serve to squeeze and more easily to makeascend towards the Vylorus that which is descended to the long and narrowbottom of the Ventricle , when the concoction of the aliment is there finished;the hard and Fibrous Flesh of the Gizards being made more strongly to com-press, and as it were to bruise the hard and dry grains which Birds do feedon, and not being necessary for those which do live only upon Flesh, or Fishlike the Cormorant.

The external Membrane of the Ventricle was white, and appeared of twosubstances; its external part being Nervous and hard at top, and fleshie atbottom, as has been declared, and its internal part being quaggie, and mu-cous, so that it seemed that by the means of this internal part the two Mem-branes of the Ventricle were glued together. The internal Membrane, whichwas somewhat reddish, was Glandulous, and composed of an infinite num-ber of small Glands a line and a half long, and about the thickness of a greatpinthese little Glands did touch each other, according to their length, andwere fastened, and as it were glued together, by a substance resembling theirown, but somewhat lest firm, and stimie. Their extremities were morefirmly fastend, viz., the lower ones which proceeded from the externalMembrane of the Ventricle, and the upper ones which did adhere each toother, and did form the internal Superficies of the Ventricle j .so that boththe ends of the Glailds did rfender this internal Superficies -like Chagrin;which doth very Well represent the Velvet of the great Ventricle of Ani-mals, which chew not the Cud, if it be imagined that the little long Teatswhich do compose tins Velvet Were joyned to each other, as conglomeratedGlands generally are; whereas in Animals which chew the Cud, theselittle Teats are separated from’each other, being only fastned to the inter-nal Membrane of the great Ventricle by their roots. In some Ostriches wehave found the internal Membrane of the Gizzard of a Structure wholly liketo this. , . ;

In the Superiour part of the Ventricle towards the Orifice, there wereseveral Worms eight or ten lines long, and about the thickness of a midlingpin. They were white and transparent, and in the middle of their bodythere was seen as it were a blackish Vein, going from the Head to the Tailwhich was more pointed than the Head, which was smaller than the mid-dle of the Body. At the bottom Of the Ventricle there was a matter liteto black blood half curdled. And it Is probable that it was in effect fromthe blood which was fallen into this place, by reason of a blow which theBird had received upon the head.

The Intestines were seven foot long. They had not those two Appen-dices which do form as it were two Cœcums, which Beknius reports to bein all Birds. We sound that these sorts of Intestines were likewise want-ing in an Eagle called Haliactos, and some other Birds. All the Intestinesof our Cormorant were of the fame bigness, containing two lines diameter.They were inclosed with the Ventricle in an Epiploon , which Pliny averrs,not to be in these Birds. This Epiploon had a great deal of Fat, hard like

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