‘ _ON THE. MUSK-DEER. 413 
The liver was more elongate and not so deep as that figured by 
Prof. Flower. The gall-bladder was lodged in a shallow fossa, its 
fundus not nearly reaching the free margin of the organ. The caudate 
lobe was lateral, and far from large. _ The Spigelian lobe was absent— 
a fact which demonstrates, what specimens of Cephalophus pygmeus 
and Camelopardalis giraffa had previously taught me, the variable Page 290.- 
nature of this small hepatic appendage, even in the same species. 
With reference to the generative organs, Pallas records the exis- 
tence of Cowper’s glands and a filiform termination to the urethra, of 
some length. I take the opportunity of figuring the glans penis, as 
the drawings given by Pallas, although particularly instructive, are 
too small to exhibit some of its characteristics (fig. 3). The glans, on 
Fig. 3. 
Glans penis of Moschus. 
the whole, is more like that in the genera Gazella and Addaz* than in 
Ovis, Capra, Cephalophus, and Camelopardalis, in all of which there 
is a filiform termination to the urethra. The Cowper's glands were 
about the size and shape of haricot beans, one on each side. The 
~yesicule seminales were each an inch long, and of a fairly uniform 
breadth of + inch. The urethral ends of the vasa deferentia were 
considerably dilated for a little more than an inch and a half. 
As has been clearly described by Pallas, the musk-sac opens a 
short distance in front of the preputial opening; its size is nearly that 
of an ordinary orange. In the specimen under consideration it was 
filled with a dark-brown, chocolate-coloured powder, possessing, most 
powerfully, the characteristic odour. Its minute orifice was a little 
more than half an inch in front of the opening of the prepuce, from 
which latter a few stiff hairs, about half an inch long, projected for- 
wards and downwards. ‘The two orifices were included within a 
common sphincter muscle, the skin over which was covered with fine 
q hairs, all radiating towards its centre. The slightly convex cutaneous 
b surface included within the sphincter was devoid of hair. This 
3 account agrees with that of J. F. Brandt and J. C. T. Ratzeburg in 
1839 ;+ and my specimen in no way differs from the excellent figures 
of the musk-sac given by those authors. 
In my paper on the visceral organs of the Ruminantia,t I have 
* (Vide supra, p. 397, fig. 18.) 
+ “ Medicinische Zoologie” (Berlin, 1839), Band i. pp. 41-51, Plate VIIL. 
t (Supra, p. 399.) 
