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served, however, repeatedly, that the hen turned the common 

 orifice to the right or left indifferently, according to the side 

 from which the cock approached her. Neither do I find any 

 penis in the cock neither, indeed, could Fabricius, although 

 in the goose and duck it is very conspicuous. But in its stead 

 I discover an orifice in the cock, not otherwise than in the hen, 

 although it is smaller and more contracted in her than in him ; 

 and in the swan, goose, and duck the same thing also appears, 

 the penis of the male goose and duck protruding through this 

 orifice during intercourse. 



In a black drake I noticed the penis of such a length that 

 after intercourse it trailed on the ground, and a fowl following, 

 pecked at it greedily, thinking it an earth-worm, as I imagine, 

 so that it was retracted more quickly than usual. 



In the male ostrich I have found within this pudendal orifice 

 a very large glans, and the red body of the penis, as we discover 

 them within the prepuce of the horse, resembling a deer's or a 

 small neat's tongue in form and magnitude ; and I have fre- 

 quently observed this organ, rigid and somewhat hooked during 

 the coitus, and when entered into the vulva of the female, held 

 for some considerable time there without any movement : it was 

 precisely as if the two creatures had been fastened together 

 with a nail. Meantime, by the gesticulations of their heads 

 and necks, and by their noises, they seemed to notify their 

 nuptials, and to express the great degree of pleasure they 

 experienced. 



I have read in a treatise of Dr. Du Val, a learned physician of 

 Rouen, that a certain hermaphrodite was referred to the sur- 

 geons and accoucheurs, that they might determine whether it 

 were a man or a woman. They, from an examination of the 

 genital organs, adjudged the party to be of the feminine gender, 

 and a dress in accordance with this decision was ordered. By 

 and by, however, the individual was accused of soliciting women, 

 and of discharging the man's office ; and then it was found, 

 that from a prepuce, as from the private parts of a woman, a 

 penis protruded, and served to perform the male's business. I 

 have myself occasionally seen the penis of a certain man so 

 greatly shrunk in size, that, unless when excited, nothing was 

 visible in the wrinkled prepuce above the scrotum but the ex- 

 tremity of the glans. 



