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understood. The larynx has the lateral sacculi well developed, 

 though entirely concealed within the alse of the thyroid cartilage. 

 The trachea divides into two bronchi, one for each lum 



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Nervous System. — The brain differs little, except in details of 

 arrangement of convolutions, from that of other Ungulates. The 

 cerebral hemispheres are rather elongated and subcylindrical, the 

 olfactory lobes are large and project freely in front of the hemi- 

 spheres, and the greater part of the cerebellum is uncovered. The 

 eye is provided with a nictitating membrane or third eyelid, at the 

 base of which the ducts of the Harderian gland open. 



Reproductive System. — The testes are situated in a distinct sessile 

 or slightly pedunculated scrotum, into which they descend from the 

 sixth to the tenth month after birth. The accessory generative 

 glands are the two vesicula? seminales, with the median third vesicle, 

 or uterus masculinus, lying between them, the single bilobed pro- 

 state, and a pair of globular Cowper's glands. The penis is large, 

 cylindrical, with a truncated, expanded, flattened termination. 

 When in a state of repose it is retracted by a muscle arising from 

 the sacrum, within the prepuce, a cutaneous fold attached below the 

 symphysis pubis. 



The uterus is bicornuate. The vagina is often partially divided 

 by a membraneous septum or hymen. The mammae (as in other 

 members of the suborder), are two, inguinally placed. The surface of 

 the chorion is covered evenly with minute villi, constituting a diffuse 

 non-deciduate placenta. The period of gestation is eleven months. 



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