326 Monster of the Sheep Genus. 



The ribs of the right side of one animal were connected with 

 those of the left side of the other, by a regularly formed ster- 

 num ; while those of the opposite side, i. e. the left of one 

 animal, and the right of the other, formed nearly a horizontal 

 plane, and were connected by a second sternum, turned the 

 reverse way of the other. The right scapula of the left animal, 

 andjfthe left scapula of the right animal, lay superiorly, while 

 the corresponding scapulae were situated immediately beneath, 

 supporting the fore part of the common trunk. It does not 

 seem that any thing further remains to be said respecting the 

 bony parts; which, by the joint aid of Messrs. Averill and 

 Charles Fowler, have been formed into a natural skeleton of 

 great beauty, and deposited in the museum attached to the 

 Casualty Hospital of this town. 



In respect to the soft parts, there was only one oesophagus, 

 which was natural, and passed down, between the two vertebral 

 columns, to the stomach, through a diaphragm which sepa- 

 rated one thoracic and one abdominal cavity in common to the 

 two animals. 



The stomach w^as single, and of the same regular, though 

 complex, structure, that it is found to be of in all ruminating 

 animals. The four divisions were distinct, and, in every re- 

 spect, quite^natural. 



, From the pyloric extremity of the stomach, passed off a set 

 of small intestines, which were in common to the two bodies ; 

 the last of them terminated somewhat on the right side of the 

 centre of an arch, which had the distinguishing characters of a 

 colon ; this passed down on each side to something resembling 

 a sigmoid flexure, and then, from the base of each sacrum, 

 descended, through each pelvis, a rectum, terminating in its 

 own external opening. No trace of a caecum could be found. 



There was a liver, rather larger than natural, lying under 

 the right ribs of the left body ; and beneath the right ribs of 

 the right body, near the inferior sternum, was discovered 

 another, about half the size of the former. Each had a distinct 

 set of vessels, but we could only detect one gall-bladder. The 

 circumstance of there being two livers in this case, with only 

 one heart, as will be seen hereafter, very much increases the 

 anomaly ; for it is laid down by a systematic writer, that " avec 

 le coeur manque constamment le foie." We could only find 

 one pancreas and one spleen. 



The kidneys were double, and so were the whole pelvic 

 viscera. The animals were both males, and the genital organs 

 appeared to be natural. It has been asserted by Pohle, Pal- 

 fyn, and others, that the greater number of monsters are of 

 the female sex ; but, as far as my observation has been extended, 



1 



