ON THE MUSK-DEER. 411 
fying many of the statements both of Pallas in his exhaustive treatise 
on the animal,* and of Prof. Flower in his memoir above referred to. 
My own attention having been much devoted of late to the anatomy 
of the Ruminantia, I was particularly pleased at having the oppor- 
tunity of dissecting the species, especially as it was of the male sex, 
and as Prof. Flower has most kindly allowed me to compare its 
viscera with those of the female specimen in the Museum of the 
College of Surgeons. ’ 
Considering the various organs seriatim, I found that the tongue 
agreed exactly with that figured by Prof. Flower, as did the epiglottis 
‘in being pointed in the middle line, and the stomach in its general 
configuration. 
In the rumen the villi were shorter than in most of the Cervide 
and more sparsely scattered. There were no traces of any special 
glandular pouch on the anterior wall of the viscus. 
In the reticulum the shallow cells were peculiar in being com- 
paratively small, and more numerous than is generally the case. 
The psalterium did not differ, except in the number of its lamineg, 
from the description given by Pallas; and it appears to me that Prof. 
Flower, at the same time that he was the first to lay proper stress 
upon its non-typical nature, hardly read correctly the account given 
by the earlier observer; for in the College specimen, although the 
“rows of papille are particularly feeble, nevertheless it might be said of 
them “ inter majores laminas rug intercalares, vel lamellule accessoriz 
angustiores.” In the stomach under consideration they are much 
more conspicuous. The organ is therefore dupliciplicate, and differs 
from that of any other Ruminant examined by me, as I have elsewhere 
shown,} in that the lamine are arranged more closely than is usually 
the case, and at the same time there isa great deficiency in minor 
folds, and an excess of those of higher degree. 
Pallas counted 23 or 25 major lamine in the psalterium of his 
specimens: Prof. Flower, 19 in his; there were 21 in the specimen 
now under consideration. 
The small intestine was 24 feet 2 inches in length, the large intes- 
tine measuring 11 feet 9 inches, and the cecum 54 inches. There 
were three and a half double turns in the colic coil, which is one more 
than is generally found in larger species, and two more than is fre- 
quently observed in smaller ones. Both the cecum and the colon 
were curiously mottled from the collection of fat in the course of the 
vessels traversing their surface, as is mentioned by Pallas, and shown 
in his figure of the former organ. 
With reference to the peculiar dilatation of the colon in the region 
* “Spicilegia Zoologica,” fasciculus xiii. (1779). + (Supra, p. 394.) 
