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ed. One is four and a half, the other five inches long ; 

 their diameter at the commencement is three-twelfths, 

 being- a little less than that of the intestine. From the 

 coeca to the cloaca, a length of two and a half inches, 

 the rectum has a diameter of about eight-twelfths. The 

 cloaca is nearly globular, two inches and three-quarters 

 long, its largest diameter two inches. The whole 

 length of the intestine is forty-nine inches. The liver is 

 not remarkably large, its two nearly equal lobes having 

 a length of two inches and eight-twelfths, and a breadth 

 of one inch and a half. The gall-bladder is nearly 

 globular, being an inch and a half long, and an inch in 

 diameter. Its duct is only eight-twelfths long. The 

 pancreas is five inches long, and, as usual, lies in the 

 first fold of the intestine. 



The nostrils are very large, broadly elliptical, oblique, 

 in the fore part of the cere, and are each divided into 

 two cavities by a soft ridge proceeding from the upper 

 edge backwards, their greatest diameter four-twelfths, 

 the least two and a half twelfths. The eyes are ex- 

 tremely large, quite fixed in the orbits, and placed 

 obliquely forwards. The diameter of the eye from one 

 canthus to the other is an inch and a half, but that of 

 the globe itself is two inches. The upper eyelid is 

 very large ; both have a thin bare crenate margin, which 

 is discontinued at the two canthi. The inner part of 

 the outer surface of both eyelids is bare, the outer fea- 

 thered. The orifice of the lachrymal passage is ex- 

 tremely large, being two-twelfths in diameter ; it is 

 single, but communicating with it, at the distance of 

 four-twelfths above, is another orifice, the canal of 

 which is formed by a membrane stretched over the 



