OF THE NUBIAN GIRAFFE. 241 
Female Organs. 
The Ovaria are irregularly oval subcompressed bodies, one inch and a half in length, 
by one inch in breadth, and a third of an inch in thickness. 
I give these dimensions, because they show that the ovaria, when in an unexcited 
state, are larger than those of the Camel in a similar condition, in which animal the 
ovaria are relatively smaller than in the horned Ruminants. But a more striking 
difference obtains between the Camel and the horned Ruminants in the relations of the 
ovarium to the pavilion and the broad ligaments. In the Camel the greater part of the 
capsula ovarii is formed by the expanded fimbriated aperture of the oviduct itself, which 
is of very large size ; and which incloses the ovarium; in Deer, Antelopes, and Cows, 
the ovarium is lodged in a depression or sacculus of the broad ligament which is more 
or less deep, and has its apertures more or less contracted in different species. In the 
Giraffe the peritoneal sacculus of the ovary, formed by an expansion of the broad ligament 
of the uterus, is wide and deep and encloses almost the whole of the ovary. ‘The fim- 
briated extremity of each oviduct, or fallopian tube, is expanded upon the outer margin 
of the ovarian capsule ; the inner surface of the pavilion is beset with very numerous and 
fine oblique strie, and is further increased by narrow folds of lamine converging towards 
the contracted opening duct. The oviduct forms three or four wavy folds, and is then 
continued along the walls of the wide ovarian capsule to the extremity of the uterine horn, 
which makes an abrupt curve to meet it. The ovaria presented a smooth exterior, 
slightly broken by a few linear impressions ; the ovisacs were of a subspherical form, 
and varied in diameter from haif a line to three lines ; they were imbedded in and closely 
adhered to a very dense stroma. The ovum was of a spherical figure, ++,th of a line in 
diameter, immediately inclosed by atransparent gelatinous chorion,—the zona pellucida 
of Baer,—and imbedded in a mass of elliptic granules of the same size as in the ovisac 
of the Cow. 
The external orifice of the common vagina resembles that of the Deer, and the other 
horned Ruminants, in coming to a point below, within which is the clitoris. In the 
Camel, on the contrary, the apex of the clitoris and its preputium form together a 
conical projection externally to the margin of the common vaginal, or urethro-sexual 
canal. From this orifice to the communication of the urethra with the vagina the 
length in the Giraffe is five inches: the proper vagina is about six inches long. It is 
lined with a smooth and polished membrane, which is disposed in numerous fine and 
small longitudinal ruge. The os tince is a large transversely oval prominence, having 
the orifice of the uterus in the centre, and marked by numerous fine ruge, which radiate 
from this orifice. 
The length of the common uterus is two inches. The cervix is occupied by two circu- 
lar series of close-set, short, longitudinal lamellar processes, about two lines in breadth, 
which project from the parietes of the uterus, and have their free margins converging to 
