306 The ^(atural Hi/lory 



licular Repofitories or Bags, near the exit of the Intejlinum reclum, 

 wherein they keep thofe humors or liquors, that are the Vehicles of 

 their refpe&ive [cents. 



229. This he firft obferved in a male Pol-cat he diffe&ed here 

 at Oxford, Febr. 4. 1 674. and was further confirmed therein the 

 fecond of March in the year following, 1675. in a female Pol-cat, 

 at the opening whereof I was prefent my felf ; fince which times, 

 he has found the fame in a Fox differed in the prefence of Dr. 

 Grew ; and fince again in Weafeh, Cats, iyc. the veficles or little 

 bags being found by pairs, one on each fide the gut ; and accord- 

 ing to the bignefs of the Animals, largeft in the Fox, and lead in 

 the Weafel. 



230. Thofe of the Pol-cat were about the bignefs of Peas, of 

 a fomwhat oblong figure-, and a yellowifh colour, and feemed to 

 confift of a double fubftance, glandulous and membranous ; the mem- 

 branous toward the necks of the bags being cover'd with glandu- 

 les, but toward the fundus wholly membranous, reprefenting upon 

 being emptied., orbicular mufcular Fibres, which he fuppofes by 

 contraction force the contained bumor out into the gut. 



231. The ufe of the Glandules he doubts not to be, to feperate 

 the humor from the mafs of blood (zllfecretions in the Body being 

 performed by the help of Glandules') and the necks of the bags lm- 

 mediatly emptying themfelves into thegut, without any continued 

 duclus ; and being placed near the Sphincler Ani, made him think 

 the contained humor in refpeft of the Animal, to be excrementitious. 

 In this Pol-cat it was of fomwhat a thick confiftence, for the mod 

 pzrtwhite, but in fome places of a greenijhye How colour, and up- 

 on preffing out, of fo ftrong a [cent, that I could fcarce (I well re- 

 member) endure the room ; which once removed from the body, 

 we could not perceive any confiderable ill frnell in any of the o- 

 therparts. 



232* In a Cat that he differed (which was but a young one, 

 and a female) the bags when blown up were not above the cize of 

 ordinary Peas, feated like the former on both fides the inteftinum 

 re&um, juft under \\\t Sphincler Ani, which covering them, he fup- 

 pofes might both occafion their not being noted before, and help 

 in the expreffion of the humor out, which (he obferved in the 

 Cat) was not into thegut, but in the limb or margo Ani, the orifices 

 of the bags terminating there, fo that he plainly perceived them 



before 



