MALE ORGANS OF QUA DRUM ANA. 



671 



528 



which the muscular tract of the urethra extends far before its 

 combination with the erectile parts of the penis: here, behind the 

 bulb, is a pair of large Cowperian glands. The penis is con- 

 tinued from the junction of the crura, forward, in front of the 

 pubis to a small prepuce at the fore part of the enlargement 

 caused by the scent-glands. The glans penis is pointed and 

 bent downward: it has 

 no bone. This is want- 

 ing also in the Musangs, 

 in which the prostate is 

 large, but surpassed by 

 Cowper's glands: the pre- 

 putial scent-follicles open 

 upon a tract distinct from 

 the anal glands. In the 

 Hyaena the prostates fig. 

 528, c, c, are large and re- 

 niform, partially confluent 

 behind : there is a minute 

 flash-shaped protometra, 

 ib. a, in the usual posi- 

 tion between the ends of 

 the sperm-ducts, b, b : 

 these are less dilated and 

 glandular than in most 

 Carnivores. The Cow- 

 perian glands, d, d, are 

 elongate and pyriform : their ducts open far forward, nearer the 

 glans penis than the vesical orifice. There is no ossicle : ' the 

 penis is easily pulled out of the prepuce, and the prepuce then 

 seems to be continued all along the penis to the end, and much of 

 the same colour. This is not the same as in a dog,' 1 in which the 

 covering of the glans is more distinct in texture and attachment. 



In the Cat the glans penis is beset with callous retroverted 

 papillae : they are less numerous and conspicuous in the Tiger 

 and Lion. In all Felines there is a small prostate, limited to 

 the back part of the neck of the bladder : the muscular part of 

 the urethra is long. Cowper's glands are large, and derive their 

 muscular covering from a modification of the * accelerators,' of 

 Avhich an external may be distinguished from an internal portion. 

 The ' erectores ' arise each by a broad tendon from the pubis : 

 anterior to this the ' compressores venae dorsalis ' take their origin, 



1 ccxxxrv. vol. ii. p. 58. 



Accessory male glands and protometra of Ilyrena Striata, half 

 nat. size, ccxxxix". 



