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Male Organs of Generation. 



The testes were elongate, oval, and situated in a short scrotum, on 

 each side of which were the rudiments of two mamma. 



The vasa deferentia pursued the same course as in the Deer ; they 

 became slightly enlarged at the terminal two inches of their course, 

 and the secreting surface of their lining membrane was augmented 

 by various irregular folds and sinuses. 



The prostate in being formed of two separate glands presented the 

 true ruminant character ; but the lobes themselves, as is the case 

 with several of the tj-pical ruminants, presented their own peculiar mo- 

 dification, each lobe at its distal extremity forming a large round 

 bulbous body, the rest of the lobe diminishing towards its urethral 

 portion. 



Two Cowperian glands, each as large as a nutmeg, were situated 

 at the base of the bulb of the urethra, surrounded by a special cap- 

 sule of muscular fibres ; they had no single central cavity, but three 

 or four sinuses conveyed the secretion to the duct, which terminated 

 in the bulbous part of the urethra. 



The penis, when retracted, assumed the sigmoid form, as in other 

 ruminants, the muscles producing the sigmoid retraction being in- 

 serted upon the sides of the corpora cavernosa, near the base of the 

 ylans. There was no septum dividing the cavernous texture of the 

 penis. 



The glans began by a somewhat sudden expansion, and continued 

 to enlarge to its distal extremity, which was smooth and rounded. 

 The prepuce was reflected upon the extremity, and not upon the 

 root of the glans, so that its division only exposed a small portion of 

 the latter. Tlie urethral canal did not open upon the extremity of 

 the glans, but was continued forwards for an inch and a half, attached 

 to the inside of the prepuce, its parietes being merely membranous, 

 and its extremity projecting freely, like a membranous bilabiate tube, 

 about a line beyond the inner surface of the prepuce. A similar 

 structure obtains in some other ruminants, as the Ram. 



Female Organs. 



The ovaria were irregularly oval, sub-compressed bodies, an inch 

 and a half in length and one in breadth. The fallopian tubes had 

 the margins of their expanded extremities almost entire. They open 

 at the outer margin of a wide ovarian capsule, which does not, how- 

 ever, inclose the ovary. The inner surface of the pavilion is beset 

 with numerous minute plicce, which converge towards the orifice of 

 the oviduct or fallopian tube ; a few small but broad folds imme- 

 diately surround the opening. 



The external orifice of the common vagina resembled that of the 

 Deer, in coming to a point, within which the clitoris was lodged. 

 From this orifice to the communication with the urethra, measured 

 five inches, and the length of the proper vagina six inches. The 



