^2 THE ELK AND, &c. 



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This pouch opens into the larynx, under the 

 root of the epiglottis, by a large orifice, which 

 eafily admitted my finger. 



When the animal pufhed the air forcibly out 

 of the lungs, as in lowing, the air paffed into 

 this pouch, fwelled it, and neceffarily produced a 

 confiderable tumour, which greatly changed the 

 found. The two mufcles drive the air out of 

 the pouch, when the animal ceafes its lowing. 



About twenty years ago, I mowed a fimilar 

 pouch in feveral baboons and monkeys ; and, 

 the year following, I demonftrated to my pupils, 

 that there was a double pouch in the Ourang- 



outang. 



The 



