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first part of its own course, then winds round to the left of the 

 mesentery, and finally recedes backward and descends to form 

 the rectum. In those Ruminants, as the Ox, which have soft 

 undivided fasces, the coils are less numerous and regular ; the 

 caecum is between two and three feet long in the Ox ; it is sub- 



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Ileo-csecal valve and contiguous agminate follicles, Giraffe, xcvi'. 



bifid at the end in the Buffalo: the colon is shorter and wider 

 in both, than in the Giraffe, Deer, Sheep and Goat tribes, where 

 the fasces are expelled in small pellets. In such Ruminants the 

 anus is a more contracted, aperture than in the Bovines or in 

 Perissodactyles. 



