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was developed less on the medial side than in the normal hen. 

 The measurements of greatest length and breadth of ovary in the 

 hermaphrodite were 29 mm. by 16 mm. while in the normal hen 

 they were, excluding the projecting yolks, 34 mm. by 20 mm. 

 The ovary was attached to the body wall near the middle line 

 by a thick stalk-like portion. This appeared perfectly normal. 

 Its longest dimension (cranio-caudal) was I 5 mm. compared to 

 1 8 mm. in the normal bird. The external appearance of the 

 ovary was quite different from that of a normal ovary. It seemed 

 to be a coarsely granular but otherwise homogeneous mass 

 covered by peritoneum and minutely and very irregularly folded. 

 It did not have the ragged appearance of the normal ovary and 

 the minute folded masses did not look like the yolks of similar 

 size in the normal ovary. They seemed to be folds on the surface 

 of a homogeneous mass rather than small spheres of yolk en- 

 closed in follicles. 



The oviduct was normal in appearance and in position. The 

 mouth of the funnel faced the ovary while the cranial ends of the 

 lips were fused and extended across the left kidney to the fourth 

 thoracic rib some distance laterad of the cranial end of the ovary. 

 The caudal ends of the lips also fused and were attached to the 

 ventio-median margin of the ligament which holds the convolu- 

 tions of the oviduct in place. The oviduct presented the same 

 principal convolutions as a normal active oviduct. It was larger 

 than the oviduct of the adult hens we have examined which had 

 never laid and the ovaries of which did not show a number of 

 yolks. Table I. gives the lengths of the oviducts we have been 

 able to examine in this condition. 



TABLE I. 



Dimensions of Oviducts of Pullets ivhich have Never Laid and -which have no Grow- 

 ing Yolks on Ovary. Hermaphrodite Included for Comparison. 



The length of the oviduct of the hermaphrodite hen 16 as 



