156 THE ANATOMY OF THE BINTURONG. 
gut itself; the colon and small intestine are of nearly equal diameter 
and uniformly cylindrical. The omentum only covered the intestines 
to a small extent, not going more than half down the abdomen, 
The liver presents all the known lobes; and the left lateral, right 
central, and right lateral are large. The lateral fissures extend deeply 
into the organ. The right central lobe is considerably cut up; the 
fissure of the gall-bladder is deep; and a small supplementary lobule 
covers the fundus of that viscus on its abdominal surface. The left 
central lobe is much more conspicuous on the diaphragmatic than on 
the abdominal surface. The caudate lobe is larger than usual, and 
quadrangular, presenting the renal fossa well developed, and being 
perforated by the vena cava inferior. The Spigelian lobe is elongate- 
oval, pointed at its free end, and it does not reach as far as the left 
Fig. 3. 
“Liver of the Binturong. 
The various lobes are lettered as follows :—x1, left lateral; 1c, left central; Rc, 
right central; RL, right lateral; s, Spigelian; c, caudate; and GB is the gall- 
bladder. 
In order to facilitate comparison, the direction of the shading in the different 
lobes is varied, all parts of the same lobe being shaded in the same direction, whilst 
the lobes on each side are differently shaded ; the left lateral, however, so far over- 
laps the left central as to appear to be connected with the right central. 
