AND NYCTEREUTES PROCYONIDES. 443 
* The cxcum is quite caniform, its curves being exactly represented Page 374. 
in that of Canis familiaris.* ore 
The liver is deeply fissured, upon the same plan as in all the Canide 
—and all the Carnivora, in fact,—the cystic fissure being very deep, 
which allows the fundus of the gall-bladder to appear on. the 
diaphragmatic surface of the organ. The left lateral lobe is the 
largest, the right central and right lateral being slightly smaller. 
These last are half as large again as the caudate and left central, 
which are at least four times the bulk of the Spigelian, upon which 
latter there is a small accessory lobule. : 
In the generative organs, as in all Canide, the prostate is large, 
whilst Cowper’s glands and the vesicule seminales are absent. The 
os penis is large, quite straight, four inches in length, and deeply 
grooved, as in all the Canide, along its lower surface. 
In the lungs there are three lobes to the left, and four to the right, 
one of the latter being azygos. The median lobes of both sides are 
the smallest; the inferior the largest. The fissures between the lobes 
are all deep. 
The brain of Lycaon pictus is perfectly dog-like, resembling that 
of Canis lupus (as figured by Leuret and Gratiolet +) in almost every 
detail, the division of the posterior limb of the gyrus third above 
the Sylvian fissure extending as far forward on the superior cerebral 
surface as in that species, or even further, the anterior superior angle 
of the gyrus next below it being rather more strongly developed. 
The sulcus between the uppermost (or fourth) gyrus and the 
third is parallel to the great longitudinal fissure between the hemi- 
spheres. 
In Nyctereutes procyonides the tongue is covered with filiform 
papillz smaller in size than in Lycaon pictus, allowing the pro- 
portionally larger fungiform papille to appear more conspicuously 
among them. These latter posteriorly become the papille circum- 
vallate, five on each side, larger posteriorly, and —ed in a 
V-manner. 
There is no uvula; and the soft palate embraces the upper end of 
the larynx with facility. = = _ 
The stomach is not peculiar, except that it is more than usually 
muscular at its pyloric end. 
In an adult male which died on the 2nd of February last, the 
father of a litter of six born on May 2nd 1877, the small intestines 
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* Vide “ Proceedings of the Zoological Society,” 1873, p. 748, fig 13. (Supra, 
p- 223). 
+ “Anatomie comparée du Systéme Nerveux” (Paris: 1839-1857), pl. iv. fig. 
Loup. , 
