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vagina. There were no anal scent-bags, but merely superficial fol- 

 licles. In this respect Cercoleptes has a nearer affinity to Ursus, in 

 which the anal bags are very small and shallow, than to the Weasel 

 tribe, in which they are largely developed. 



" The tongue was long, smooth, flat, and slightly emarginate 

 at the tip. It had seven fossulate papilla ; the three nearest to the 

 epiglottis, and forming the apex of the triangle, were the smallest. 

 There was a long and large elastic l^tta, ligamentous anteriorly, 

 cellular posteriorly, surrounded by a muscular sheath of circular 

 fibres. 



" The tonsils were large and oblong. There was no uvula. The 

 epiglottis was well developed, with a pointed apex. There were 

 two narrow, shallow slits in place of laryngeal sacculi. The thy- 

 roid glands were separate, oblong, pointed at their lower extre- 

 mities. There were more than twenty-five tracheal rings, which 

 were incomplete behind. 



" The brain of the Kinhajou is characterized by convolutions dis- 

 posed as in the Carnivora generally ; but the anterior transverse an- 

 fractuosity (marked No. 1. in Plate XX. of the 'Zoological Society's 

 Transactions') runs more obliquely from within, outwards and for- 

 wards, and there is a greater proportion of brain anterior to it. 

 The general form of the brain is longer and narrower than in the 

 Cat. The cerebellum is separated from the cerebrum by a strong 

 bony tentorunn. 



"The morbid appearances in the parts examined by me were 

 small firm tubercles studding the liver, spleen, and kidneys ; a 

 large tuberculous mass between the kidneys ; and a similar mass 

 occupying the place of the mesenteric glands: both these masses 

 were of scirrhous hardness, and of an irregular fibrous structure in 

 the middle. 



" In the note-book of our medical superintendent, Mr. Youatt, is 

 the following record of the illness of the Kinkajou: 



" ' May I7th. Has not been well for some days ; dull, and of? 

 its food. A little castor-oil operated well. 



" < May 23rd. Dismissed well. 



" ' May 26th. Again off its food. 



" 'June 3rd. No symptom of serious illness. 



"' June 7th. Spirits and appetite gonej sad heaving at the 

 flanks. There is deeply seated organic mischief. 



" ' June 10th. Sinking. 



" « June 1.5th. Died.' 



" In his description of the morbid appearances, Mr. Youatt ob- 

 .serves : ' When I attempted to cut through the diaphragm, in order 

 to bring the lungs into view, I met with a hardness which I could 

 with difficulty cut, and which creaked under the knife. When I 

 got the contents of the thorax fairly out, I found adhesions under 

 the diaphragm, but not a vestige either of pericardium or mediasti- 

 num ; in lieu of them was a hardened, almost cartilaginous mass, 

 presenting a convex surface superiorly, adapting itself to the form 

 of the thorax, with a hollow formed in it, which contained the 



