464 Zoological Society. 



their termination in the large intestines there appeared the rudiment 

 of a ccECum. 



" Encircled by a fold of the colon was situated the spleen, of a dark 

 red colour, and soft spongy structure, almost round in shape, and of 

 the size of a small egg : several tortuous veins proceeded from it, 

 and the veins and arteries of the mesentery in general were of the 

 same character. 



" The length of the large intestines was 1 foot Y inches ; the mus- 

 cular coat was particularly distinct; the villous smooth]; and several 

 black patches were observed on its surface, which exhibited great 

 vascularity. 



" The urinary bladder was double, or rather it might be said that 

 there were two bladders, lying on opposite sides of the rectum, and 

 adhering to the sides of the pelvis, each communicating by a distinct 

 opening into the commencement of the cloaca. Their size and shape 

 was that of a small pear: their texture very thin and fibrous, the 

 fibres being irregularly disposed. 



" The ^ch/s, 24- inches long, lay concealed entirely within the 

 cloaca. It was grooved along its upper surface with the furrow usual 

 in the Tortoises, but instead of being free or disengaged, was 

 attached by a close union throughout its whole length on the under 

 side to the cloaca. The glans was acuminate, and full an inch from 

 the anus. From this union of the penis to the cloaca it is difficult to 

 conceive that it can ever be protruded externally, especially when 

 its distance from the external orifice of the cloaca is considered. The 

 duct of the right bladder, in length half an inch, was found to 

 terminate just above the furrow of the penis, while that of the left 

 opened an inch on one side of it. 



" The testes were about the size of a pigeon's egg, elongated, of a 

 bright ochre colour, and situated in the pelvic portion of the abdo- 

 minal cavity, one on each side of the vertebral column ; their struc- 

 ture was soft and somewhat granular. There were no suprarenal 

 capsules. Beneath the testes lay the kidneys, large, irregular in 

 figure, glandular in structure, consisting of brain-like reduplications, 

 and dipping between the interstices of the three lowest ribs, (or 

 rudiments of ribs,) on each side of the vertebral column. 



" The palate was smooth, with slight transverse rugce ; the pha- 

 rynx wide, simply membranous, and capable of great extension ; 

 the tongue a smooth cartilaginous point, at the base of which the 

 larynx opened by a very small simple rma. There was no epiglottis; 

 but around the rima a slight fold of the membrane was just percep- 

 tible. The larynx crossing before the pharynx dipped down on the 

 left side of the neck, and passing under the left clavicle, divided into 

 two great branches, at about afoot from the rima : the right branch 

 passed before the oesophagus, and immediately entered the right lobe 

 of the lungs ; the left passed under the cardiac portion of the sto- 

 mach to the left lobe. 



"Tiie lungs consisted of two large and equal lobes, distinct, flat, 

 and dark red, extending from the upper edge of the carapace as far 

 as t\iQ pelvis, but not as in the Land Tortoises (the Indian and Greek, 



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