The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . is extremelyvague, or rather, with certain reservations, that they compose but one series, plainly charac-terized by their anatomy. The sternal apparatus of the Knot Sandpiper (fig. 119.) may serve as a specimen of this portion of the skeleton throughoutthe whole, the few modifications which occur of it beinginconsiderable. The stomach (save in the Bustards andCoursers, which in other respects are the least conform-able among them), is always a muscular gizza
The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . is extremelyvague, or rather, with certain reservations, that they compose but one series, plainly charac-terized by their anatomy. The sternal apparatus of the Knot Sandpiper (fig. 119.) may serve as a specimen of this portion of the skeleton throughoutthe whole, the few modifications which occur of it beinginconsiderable. The stomach (save in the Bustards andCoursers, which in other respects are the least conform-able among them), is always a muscular gizzard, and theintestines long, with small or moderate coeca, and invaria-bly a distinct ccecal remnant of the umbilical vessel. Thefemales (except in the very few species of polygamous4 liliiM; Itf iiJii \i \ habit), are larger than the males, and they almost invariably lay four eggs on the ground, upon little or no nest, anddispose them with the small ends inwards; the youngfollowing their parents as soon as they burst the shell]. According to his own principles, Linnaius should haveclassed most of these birds in his great genus of. of the Knot Samliiipo The Snipes {Scolopax),—Which we divide as follows, from trivial variations of the formof the bill. The Ibises {Ibis, Cuv.).We separate these from the Taniali of Gmelin, on account of their beak, which, though arcuated as in :. 243
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