xVltliougli severai zoologists liave turned their ätten tion to 

 the external, as well as the internal, anatomy ' of the inte- 

 resting and aberrant Cryptoprocta, the organs mentioned 

 above seeni only to have been quite briefly considered in a 

 note by H. Filhol "^ in whieh 14 lines are given to tliis sub- 

 ject. Under sucli circumstances and when these organs through 

 their peculiar development and structure are apt to attract 

 some attention, I have not thought it unfit to j^resent the 

 followiug deseription and let it be accompanied by some 

 ågures illustrating the different parts. 



The material, a young female animal, which lias been 

 nsed for these notes and fignres, belongs to the Zoological 

 Museum of the R,. University, Upsala, and has been placed 

 at the disposition of the present author by the Director, Pro- 

 fessor T. Tullberg to whom I thus wish to express my thanks 

 for this new proof of his liberality. 



At the first look at the animal in question I l)elieved it 

 to 1)6 a male specimen, and only an inspection of the internal 

 parts made me quite sure about the sex. Fig. 1 of the ac- 

 companying plate showing the exteriör genital organs and 

 the opening of the anal pouch may fully reveal the cause 

 why such a mistake could be made. ^ The clitoris (c.) is of 

 a eomparatively enormous size and might most easily be 

 taken for a penis. In addition to this there are to be seen 

 below the opening of the circumanal pouch two roundish eleva- 

 tions (e.) which remind one of a scrotum although they have 

 nothing to do with such an organ. 



^ As late as 1895 F. E. Beddärd wrote >on the Visceral and Museular 

 Anatomy of Cryptoprocta ferox> in Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1895, p. 430—437. 



^ Comptes Rendus Hebd. des Séances de TAcad. des Se. Paris T. CXVIII. 

 1894. P. 1060— fi2. 



^ This iigure onght to be compared with that representing the male 

 generative organs of Hycena crocnta accompanying Watson's paper. Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. London 1878. 



