474 ON GENERATION. 



kinds of mice at the season of intercourse ; this circumstance 

 corresponds with what we have already noticed in the cock, and 

 the great change perceptible in the organs of generation of 

 both sexes; nevertheless, the glands, which are regarded as 

 the female testes, continue all the while unchanged and with- 

 out departure from their pristine appearance. 



All that has now been said of the uterus and its horns in 

 hinds and does applies in major part to viviparous animals in 

 general, but not to the human female, inasmuch as she con- 

 ceives in the body of the uterus, but all these, with the excep- 

 tion of the horse and ass, in the horns of the organ ; and even 

 the horse and ass, although they appear to carry their fruit in 

 the uterus, still is the place of the conception in them rather 

 of the nature of an uterine horn than the uterine body. For 

 the place here is not bipartite indeed, but it is oblong, and 

 different from the human uterus both in its situation, con- 

 nexions, structure, and substance; it bears a greater affinity to 

 the superior uterus or uterine process . of the fowl, where the 

 egg grows and becomes surrounded with the albumen, than to 

 the uterus of the woman. 



EXERCISE THE SIXTY-SIXTH. 



Of the intercourse of the hind and doe. 



So much for the account of the uterus of the female deer, 

 where we have spoken briefly upon all that seemed necessary 

 to the history of generation, viz. the ' place' of conception, and 

 the parts instituted for its sake. We have still to speak of 

 the action and office of this ' place/ in other words, of inter- 

 course and conception. 



The hind and doe admit the male at one and only one 

 particular season of the year, namely, in the middle of Sep- 

 tember, after the Feast of the Holy Cross ; and they bring forth 

 after the middle of June, about the Feast of St. John 'the 

 Baptist (24th June). They, therefore, go with young about 

 nine months, not eight, as Pliny says ; * with us, at all events, 



1 Lib. viii, cap. 32. 



