172 PROF. W. H. FLOWER ON THE MUSK-DEER. [Mar. 16, 
band to within an inch of its termination. The attached border of 
the colon immediately beyond the ileo-czecal valve has an oval dila- 
tation, 0’':8 in length and 06 in breadth, with thickened glandular 
walls, which Pallas compares to the similar but more marked 
glandular dilatation in the Leporide, and which, as he says, he has 
observed in no other rnminant*. 
The pancreas is flat, broad, of irregular outline, and of loose 
texture. 
Fig. 10. 
Under surface of liver, half natural size. 
I, left lobe; R, right lobe; S, Spigelian lobule; C, caudate lobe; VC, vena 
caya; VP, vena porte ; G, gall-bladder; U, umbilical fissure. 
The liver (fig. 10) presents the usual simple form of that of the 
Ruminantst+. Its general outline is an irregular oval, 62 in extreme 
breadth and 3”*7 in depth. Its diaphragmatic surface shows only the 
well-marked umbilical fissure about an inch in depth, and dividing it 
into right and left segments, of which the former does not greatly 
exceed the latter in size. Extending from the bottom of the fissure to 
the posterior or attached border, the delicate suspensory ligament (so 
often completely atrophied in Ungulates) is distinctly seen. There 
are no traces of lateral fissures. On the under surface the left lobe is 
simple, with a thin nearly semicircular freeedge. The right is much 
thickened at its posterior border, and has attached to it very distinct 
Spigelian and caudate lobes. The former, represented in most Rumi- 
nants by a mere smooth tract, has attached to it a flattened quadrate 
* In the Pudu the cecum is not quite so long and of greater diameter than 
in Moschus, being 5" in length and 2" in breadth. It has the usual obtusely 
ended cylindrical form, and wants the dilatation at the commencement of the 
colon observed in the Musk. 
+ See “Lectures on the Comparative Anatomy of the Organs of Digestion of 
the Mammalia,” Medical Times and Gazette, Sept. 21st, 1872. 
