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vagina was lined bj' a smooth and polished membrane, disposed in 

 numerous fine longitudinal rugee. 'ITie os tincee was a large, trans- 

 versely oval prominence, having the orifice of the uterus in the centre. 

 The length of the common uterus was two inches. The cervix was 

 occupied by two circular series of close-set, short, longitudinal la- 

 mellar processes, about t\vo lines in breadth, which projected from 

 the parietės of the uterus, and had their free margins converging to 

 the centre of the canal. Above these, the inner membrane of the 

 uterus sent off several thickened processes. Each cornu of the uterus 

 was about eight inches in length, and became bent in a spirai form 

 when distended vnth. fluid : four longitudinal ro\vs of flattened pro- 

 cesses projected from the inner surface, showing that the fatus is 

 developed in the Girafre by means of a cotyledonous subdivided 

 placenta, as in other homed Ruminants, and not, as in the Gamei, by 

 an uniform vascular villosity of the chorion. 



