762 MR. A. H. GARROD ON LOPHOTRAGUS MICHIANUS. [Nov. 21, 



tened, and slender, with nearly parallel sides, the largest being 

 slightly spooned at their free ends. In most parts they are about 

 a quarter of an inch long ; but on the folds they are much shorter. 

 Nowhere are they absent. They are all blunt-tipped and slightly 

 crenulated along their margins. No trace of the special gland found 

 by Prof. Flower on the anterior wall of the paunch of the Musk 

 could be detected. Neither in Cervulus muntjac nor in C. reevesi .'tie 

 the villi of the rumen flattened, they being cylindrical. The cells of 

 the reticulum are shallow and not large, covered with minute papillse 

 on their floors, and with a regularly arranged row on the top of each 

 cell -wall. 



The psalterium resembles that of the ordinary Deer, and differs 

 from that of Moschus in that the plicae are unequal in length. There 

 are thirteen folds of what may be termed the first power, because they 

 are the deepest, between each two of which one of the second power is 

 developed. On each side of each secondary fold is a tertiary, about 

 a quarter of an inch deep ; and, again, there is a longitudinal row of 

 papillae on each side of each tertiary fold, which may be considered 

 to be a rudimentary set of the fourth power. Such a psalterium may 

 be called quadruplicate, because folds are present of four different 

 depths. The stomach of Moschus would be simpliciplicate, were it not 

 that there is a row of papillae developed between the plicae in some 

 parts ; it is therefore duplicate upon the nomenclature here suggested. 



The abomasum presents no peculiarities. 



The following are the measurements of the intestines : — 



ft. in. 



Small intestine 23 2 



Large intestine 9 8 



Caecum 9| 



The colic coil was not disposed in quite the ordinary manner ; but 

 the peculiarity was probably an individual one. At its end the large 

 intestine made a complete transverse reduplication before turning 

 forward from the right iliac fossa to form its terminal and irregular 

 curve round to the sigmoid flexure. 



The spleen is flat on one side, domed on the other, and circular. 



The liver is composed of two nearly equal lobes, from the abdomi- 

 nal surface of the right of which is developed the triangular and 

 laterally directed caudal lobe. The Spigelian lobe is only rudimen- 

 tary, being represented by a slight tumefaction of the vertebral border 

 of the portal fissure. There is no gall-bladder. 



In the arteries of the neck the arrangement is that found in the 

 Ruminantia generally, the ascending aorta giving origin, first to the 

 left brachial with the corresponding vertebral, then to the left carotid, 

 and finally to the same three vessels of the right side. 



There are thirty-eight tracheal rings above the accessory bronchus, 

 and nine below it, making forty-seven in all. In the lungs the two 

 lobes of the left side and the five on the right were found, the right 

 lung being the larger. The lower lobe of each lung is comparatively 

 small. 



