718 DR. J. MURIE ON THE INDIAN WILD DOG. [Julie 4, 



head 2g inches in diameter ; and the opposite narrower part about 

 an inch. 



The entire gut had a length of 7 feet 5g inches. Of this the 

 small intestines measured 75 inches, and possessed a tolerably uni- 

 form diameter of about f inch. Great intestines 14| inches long. 

 These have no fibrous longitudinal bands, and their calibre does not 

 vary much, viz. about 1 inch in diameter. The caecum was a simple 

 diverticulum 2\ inches long and partially twisted upon its axis, 

 which the accompanying woodcut illustrates better than a verbal 

 description. 



Fig. 3. 



Cm, cjecum ; C, colon ; and i, portion of the ilium. 



Left lung deeply cleft and three-lobed ; the right pulmonary 

 organ had an additional lobule, the so-called lobus impar, which was 

 bifid. In the female Cuon the bronchial and oesophageal glands 

 were much enlarged and elongate ; some of them inside swarmed 

 with Entozoa. A few of these were kept for identification ; but as 

 time passed I lost sight of the specimens. Neither heart nor kidneys 

 presented any differences from the same organs in the common 

 Dog. 



As regards the liver, this had the ordinary deep cleavage or seg- 

 mentation less or more pertaining to the Carnivora. The left lobe 

 was larger than the right, and the middle or cystic lobe about equal 

 to the latter. Gall-bladder capacious, pyriform, and long-necked. 

 Both caudate and Spigelian lobes relatively large and free. 



I may say a word with respect to the anal glands, these being the 

 only parts of the genito-anal region which attracted my attention as 

 presenting any thing unusual. Exteriorly and around the anus there 

 was a fair-sized bare oval space of a tawny colour. This was studded 

 throughout by minute puncta, the openings of innumerable sub- 

 cutaneous sebaceous-like glands, which kept the surrounding cuti- 

 cular parts moist with their peculiar-smelling secretion. Besides 

 these follicles, two much larger orifices were apparent. The latter 

 were situate one on each side of the anus (see fig. 4), and they 

 communicated by a duct with a small subdermal glandular body. 



Among the numerous races of Wild Dogs the genus Cuon has 

 been separated chiefly on account of the anomaly of its dentition. 

 De Blainville, in his meritorious ' Osteologie,' illustrates most of the 

 cranial and dental characters ; but the most recent literature and 



