1905.] 



ANATOMY OF THE FERRET-BADGER. 



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In Helictis, on the other hand, this membrane is of much less 

 extent. It is only attached to about half the length of the 

 pancreas and is inserted on to the mesocolon along a line which 

 begins a little before the left kidney but ends at about its middle. 

 This characteristic difterence is illustrated in the figures (text- 

 figs. 9, 10). 



Text-fiiT. 9. 



Pancreas and adjacent regions iu Selictis 'persoyiata. 

 D. J)aodenum ; P. End of pancreas ; K. Kidnej' ; St. Stomach. 



§ Ovary mid Broad Ligament. 



As is very frequently, if not constantly, the case with the 

 Arctoidea, the ovary is completely encapsuled and thus continuous, 

 anatomically, with the Fallopian tube. 



An interesting point concerns the suspension of the ovary and 

 oviducal canal. The mesoarium is continued forwards for a short 

 distance in front of the ovary, running attached to the parietes 

 to the outside of the kidney. In Galictis there is the same 

 forward prolongation of this fold, which has the same position in 

 relation to the kidney, but it extends much further forward on 



