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Respiratory Organs.—Slight, hacking cough, with pain in left scapul�.

Pain: In right ear, as if meatus auditorius were obstructed; in facial muscles, in lungs, in the front and the back up to the scapul�; in right side of back, followed by violent sneezing; in upper arm, outside, near the shoulder; pain and twitching in the left thumb; in bend of left knee; in upper part of metatarsus of right foot; in great and little toe of left foot in morning; in sole of left foot.

Indeed, the outside of nature is more truly drawn; the material commonplace, which can be systematized, catalogued, and 48 taught to all pains-taking mankind,—forms of ribs and scapul�,12 of eyebrows and lips, and curls of hair.

With ducks, the crest of the sternum is affected in the same manner as in the foregoing cases: the furcula, coracoids, and scapul� are all reduced in weight relatively to the whole skeleton: the bones of the wings are shorter and lighter, and the bones of the legs longer and heavier, relatively to each other, and relatively to the whole skeleton, in comparison with the same bones in the wild-duck.

Lastly, as our birds are supposed to be confined in an aviary, they would use their wings and legs but little, and certain parts of the skeleton, such as the sternum and scapul� and the feet, would in consequence become slightly reduced in size.