120 Anatomical Notes, &c. [Feb. 



cated on their surface, 1^ inch Ion?, one inch broad. Stomachs four, 

 in all respects ruminant. The large bag, or first stomach, mean 

 length 8 inches, breadth 6 inches. Entire length of intestines 40 

 feet. From the pylorus to caecum 28 feet, from caecum to vent 12 

 feet. One caecum 13 inches long, and 2 inches in diameter. The 

 small intestines, which are round and thread-like, as well as the larger 

 ones, are very thin coated ; average diameter of lar^e ones near the 

 rectum 2 inches. Right lung the larger, three-lobed ; left lung 

 three-lobed also, a small centre lobe of which lies below the apex of 

 the heart. Heart 3 inches long, 2 in diameter. 



Another Musk Deer, May 28, 1835. 



No branches from the arch of the aorta. The ascending aorta one 

 inch from the arch, gives off, first, a common trunk, immediately 

 divided into the left subclavian and left vertebral — second, 2\ inches 

 higher: it (the aorta) divides into two branches; viz. the right 

 cephalic, and the common trunk of the right subclavian and right 

 vertebral. 



The os hyoides is formed of a small centre body and two horns, 

 each of the two pieces having a posteriorly directed process for inser- 

 tion into the head of the thyroid cartilage. The cornua are articulated 

 with a small process of the temporal bone below the meatus audito- 

 rius. The larynx one inch long. The trachea to the first branch 

 given off, (which is on the right side) eight inches long : one inch 

 further on it divides at once into four branches, the first branch goes 

 to the highest of the four lobes of the right lung. The cartilaginous 

 rings of the trachea incomplete behind. 



Dimensions of the " Wah" of the Bhotiahs. 



Ailurus Fulgens, or male, mature. 



From snout to tip of tail, 37^ inches. 



From the sole of fore foot to superior crest of scapula, 9| ins. 



From foramen magnum to snout, taken with callipers, 5\ inches. 



Length of tail 6 inches. 



From first cervical vertebra, to first vertebra of the tail, 1 6f inches. 



Greatest circumference of head round the angle of the jaw, 10 ins. 



Length of humerus, 5 inches. 



Length of fore-arm, A\ inches. 



From wrist to tip of middle finger, 1\ inches. 



Length of femur, 4§ inches. 



Length of tibia, and fibula, 5^ inches. 



From heel to tip of middle toe, 4| inches. 



Girth round lower part of thorax, 12 inches. 



From anterior edge of the orbit to tip of snout, \\ inches. 



From external opening of the ear to the tip of the nose, Z\ ins. 



