74 Mr. Morecan’s Description 
garoo, when loaded with its secretions, and at a time when the 
young within the pouch was several months old; for, as I have 
before stated, the condition of these parts is constantly changing 
at different periods of gestation. At the particular period, how- 
ever, which I have mentioned, as referring to the animal under 
consideration, the following appearances were presented. 
On removing the muscle which enveloped the mamma, that 
part was found, as in the virgin animal, to be composed of two 
distinct glandular substances, bearing nearly the same relative 
proportions as in the former instance (żab. 8. f. 1.). In form, ` 
however, they were somewhat altered ; for the larger gland had 
now changed from a circular to an oval shape, it was of a pur- 
plish colour, and possessed of a very high degree of vascularity. 
The marsupial teat was now found attached to its inner side. In | 
the former instance, when mentioning the dissection of the virgin 
animal, it will be remembered, that this gland was described as 
closely confined to the skin of the pouch immediately behind 
the follicular openings, which led to a central canal in its inte- 
rior; whereas, it was now found that its cellular connections 
were comparatively loose, and that its attachment to that part 
of the integuments, to which it formerly closely adhered, was 
now formed .by the medium of its excretory ducts, which, in- 
closed within their proper sheath, were collected together and 
disposed in the form of a fasciculus or cord passing from the 
inner margin of the gland to the marsupial teat. 
All remains of the follicular apertures in the pouch had disap- 
peared, the gland was removed from its former situation, and its 
excretory ducts, formed into a plexus or fasciculated cord, were 
continued from the gland to the true marsupial teat, exactly 
through that part of the integuments of the pouch, which, in the 
virgin animal, was occupied by the aperture I have before 
alluded to. 
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