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vagina was lined by a smooth and polished membrane, disposed in 

 numerous fine longitudinal rugce. The os tinea was a large, trans- 

 versely oval prominence, having the orifice of the uterus in the centre. 

 The length of the common uterus was two inches. The cervix was 

 occupied by two circular series of close-set, short, longitudinal la- 

 mellar processes, about two lines in breadth, which projected from 

 the parietes of the uterus, and had their free margins converging to 

 the centre of the canal. Above these, the inner membrane of the 

 uterus sent off several thickened processes. Each cornu of the uterus 

 was about eight inches in length, and became bent in a spiral form 

 when distended with fluid : four longitudinal rows of flattened pro- 

 cesses projected from the inner surface, showing that the fatiis is 

 developed in the Giraffe by means of a cotyledonous subdivided 

 placenta, as in other horned Ruminants, and not, as in the Camel, by 

 an uniform vascular villosity of the chorion. 



