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" The rirna glottidis presented a construction very similar to that 

 of the Lion, the slit being simple with its edges considerably pro- 

 duced ; a form occasioned by the projection of the arytenoid car- 

 tilages, which in shape were found to be somewhat triangular, one 

 angle of each cartilage being placed anteriorly. 



" The thyroid gland consisted of two compressed disjoined lobes, 

 one on each side of the larynx, extending from the top of the first 

 ring as far down as the sixth or seventh. 



" The epiglottis was broad and acuminate. 



" The trachea consisted of thirty-four imperfect rings, and mea- 

 sured fully 3 inches in circumference ; the cartilaginous portion 

 making up but about two-thirds of the circle, and being very soft 

 and elastic. At the division of the trachea two large indurated 

 glands were situated." 



A preparation of the tongue, larynx and trachea of an Ocelot, 

 Felis Pardalisy Linn., having been placed on the table for compa- 

 rison with the preparation of the same parts in the Jaguar, Mr. 

 Martin pointed out the difference between them. He showed that 

 while in the Jaguar there intervenes between the base of the tongue 

 and the rima glottidis a distance of 3 inches, in the Ocelot the 

 rima and base of the tongue are in close proximity. In the Ocelot 

 the epiglottis is larger in proportion than in the Jaguar, is not so 

 acute, and has a slight indentation at the point : the rings of the 

 trachea are also firmer and more perfect than in the Jaguar; and 

 the edges of the rima glottidis do not protrude as in that animal and 

 in the Lion. The thyroid gland is double both in the Ocelot and 

 the Jaguar. At the commencement of the oesophagus the mem- 

 brane is puckered up in the Ocelot into a number of irregular folds 

 crossing the strice, which are there very slight and longitudinal so 

 as to form a kind of valve or obstruction : in the Jaguar on the con- 

 trary the stria are transverse, and there are no valve-like foldings 

 of the membrane between the pharynx and oesophagus. 



The following note by A. P. Palmedo, Esq., H. M. .Consul in 

 Corsica, dated Bastia, Jan. 1832, was read. It was communicated 

 to the Committee by Mr. Barnard. 



" There had been hitherto no instance in Corsica of Moufflons 

 breeding in a domesticated state, nor any of their coupling with 

 Sheep, though the flocks of the latter not rarely approach the high 

 regions of the Moufflon. General Merlin, the commanding officer 

 of Corsica, has now, however, not only a young Moufflon born of 

 two tame Moufflons in his possession, but also an offspring of the 

 same he-Moufflon and of a Ewe" 



