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oblong glands, which terminate in open mouths something like the 

 proventricular glands of a bird. The mouths of but few of them are 

 distinguishable ; but the preparation has been in spirits for two 

 years, and its normal structure is not so readily made out. I speak 

 therefore with some amount of hesitation. 



The three agminated patches in the small intestines, alluded to in 

 my former paper (P. Z. S. 1864, p. 269), consist of large villi (as 

 seen in the woodcut fig. 1, magnified 20 diameters). Fig. 2 repre- 

 sents the duodenal glands and crypts of about half their natural 

 size ; a small portion of the duodenum only is depicted. The size of 

 the crypts has been diminished by immersion in spirits. 



Fig. 1. 



It will be interesting to compare these with the same structures 

 in an adult animal. Uliger and Swainson placed the Giraffe with 

 the Camels ; and these glauds, crypts, and villi bear some resem- 

 blance to those found in the Camelidce ; but the blood-corpuscles of 

 the Camel and many parts of its anatomy differ widely from those 

 of the Giraffe. 



As I have mentioned in a former paper, a large agminated csecal 

 gland is seen in the same situation in many animals ; that in the 

 Nylgau (Antilope picta) and that in the Jaguar (Felts onca) are 

 very remarkable. Its use remains to be determined by future in- 

 vestigators ; but it is probably a secretory gland adapted for the 

 special requirements of this part of the tube. 



It is worthy of note that in the mother of this Giraffe I found 

 several Echinococci in the spleen ; in this Giraffe the liver contained 

 one of these parasitic cysts. 



Not wishing to interfere with the province of Dr. Murie, I leave 

 other matters to his description. As this animal was in good health 

 when suffocated I took a piece of its flesh and had it cooked in two 

 pieces, — the one as a chop, the other, after being prepared with 

 treacle, nitre, and spice, like the so-called Dutch or " hung beef." 

 The fresh-cooked meat had rather a musky smell, and the flavour 

 was not so good as that of beef or mutton ; the spiced meat was 

 excellent, and equal to that of any beef prepared in the way I have 

 described. I mention this for two reasons, — first, because the. Giraffe 

 is not an unlikely animal to be kept hereafter during the summer in 

 some of our English parks ; and secondly, because Dr. Livingstone 



