272 MEIGS' OBSERVATIONS ON THE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS, 



elongated larynx may pass upwards to the blow hole or nostril, to receive the air in 

 aspiration. It is also clear that the larynx may be withdrawn from this fissure in 

 the act of swallowing, and possibly to clear the mouth by an act of expiration or 

 expuition. 



The ovary (vide PI. XXXVI.) is represented in the drawing ; it is of an enormous 

 size, and worthy of remark as exhibiting the corpus luteum, which, as in the 

 ruminants, has invaded or occupied nearly the whole of the stroma ovarii. 



