292 NORTH AMERICAN MUSTELID.ZE. 



Briefly, then, the Badger possesses perinneal glands, remarkably peculiar 

 not only in their formation, but in their general relations, since the true anal 

 glands are supplemented with another special glandular mass. This latter 

 is not situated between the genitalia and the anus, as in Fu'erra, but betweeu 

 the tail and the anus, so that it is behind the latter and not in front of it, 

 like the scent-bags of the Civets. We cannot, however, deny their analogy, 

 as seen in the central cavity, clothed with hairs, and the bilobation of the 

 gland ; but they diifer in situation, in the nature of the product, and to a 

 certain extent in histological structure, thus warranting, from the present 

 standpoint, recognition of two quite distinct types. 



