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Diagram of the convolutions of the colon in the Capybara. The dotted line repre- 
sents the cecum springing from the side of the dilated end of the large intes- 
tine, and running forward to the diaphragm. 
a, ileo-cxeal valve ; 5, rectum. 
ing the left hypochondrium the descending colon continues straight to 
the sigthoid flexure, which is strongly developed, and thence to the 
rectum 
The sacculated cecum being bound to the first part of the colon by 
bands of equal length (about 24 inches), follows the course of that 
canal, and is therefore doubled on itself, not, as Prof. Owen remarks, 
occupying the posterior half of the abdomen, but running forwards 
towards the diaphragm, above the colon, till its caput arrives in the 
right hypochondriac and epigastric regions, where the ruminant-like 
coil above referred to is strongly bound to it on its under or ventral 
surface. 
Neither in Cavia, Dolichotis, Capromys, nor in any of the allied 
forms with which I am acquainted, does the strong sigmoid curve of 
the large intestine, at the commencement of the sacculated cecum, 
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