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Like Garrod I found the psalterium of the Koodoo tripli- 

 cate. 



The colon of the same animal makes 27^2 centripetal 

 coils counting from ansa proximalis and 2 centrifugal coils 

 not connting the peripheric coil, thus in spite of the size of 

 the animal a rather simple condition no doubt standing in 

 connection Avitli its feeding habits which permit it to select 

 tender shoots and leaves of trees and shrubs and to despise 

 and avoid coarse grass and other less digestible foodmaterial. 



The pannch of Oreamnos [Haploceros) montanus has rather 

 small papill^e their length being about 3 mm., but they are 

 not so strongly flattened as in most Antelopes. The retlcu- 

 lum appears to be large, although the specimen probably is 

 not fullgrown. It measures 13 V2 by 9 cm. The »cells» are 

 large those in the middle of the organ having a diameter 

 of 15 to 17 mm. The stellate septa are visible in almost all 

 »cells». 



The psalterium has a length of about 9 cm. It is plainly 

 triplicate. The primary folds have a height of about 35 mm., 

 the secondary are half as high, and the tertiary 3 to 5 mm. 

 The papillae are stout but short and uncommonly blunt. 



The spleen of this animal is very short and broad, its 

 length being about 9 cm. and its breadth 7\/2 cm. 



The colic spiral is rather complex as could be expected, 

 because the Mountain Goat is surely very bften obliged to 

 subsist on quite coarse food. Counted from ansa proxima- 

 Us the colon makes four centripetal coils, and then three and 

 a half centrifugal coils before it turns away in the common 

 mesentery to form the peripheric coil which is very long, 

 being shortly (2 — 2 V2 cm.) connected with the small intestine 

 and thus partaking in its undulations. 



Antilocapra americana has already been studied by Gar- 

 rod (1). The present author has had the pleasure of receiving 

 from Professor L. Heck, Berlin, some parts of the viscera of 

 this species and is therefore able to give the following notes 

 containing some additional knowledge about this interesting 

 animal. The sacci cceci of the paunch are not sharply defined. 

 The papillae of the paunch are tongue-like, somewhat varying 

 in size and shape, some being broader some narrower but all 

 of them flattened and rather thin. Their average length 

 appears to be 4 to 6 mm. The reticulum is large, roundish 



