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external appearance might be compared to that of a crest of ostrich fea- 

 thers. The narrowed apex, towards the pylorus, is provided with 

 a small, thick, rounded and wrinkled opening, surrounded by concentric 

 fibres, leading by a common, short, cylindrical duct to the broader cavi- 

 ty, which latter is divided by two longitudinal parietes into three sepa- 

 rate portions. If a tube is introduced into the common duct, the 

 air injected will simultaneously fill all three portions of the cavity, but 

 if the tube is inserted into any one of the three separate portions, the 

 air will fill that particular portion, leaving the two others collapsed. 

 The interior surface of this organ secretes a whitish mucus. Adjoining 

 the common opening, from ten to eleven small rounded glands com- 

 mence, arranged on a line towards the pylorus. Each gland has, in its 

 centre, a minute wrinkled opening, leading into a small cavity secret- 

 ing mucus. 



The stomach was extended by the remains (heads and legs,) of a pro- 

 digious quantity of large black ants, inhabiting the hills. The contents 

 of the stomach were involved in mucus, deeply tinctured with bile, and 

 among them appeared five small rounded fragments of granite. Another 

 individual expired after 10 days confinement, during which period it took 

 no food, although it was repeatedly placed among swarms of the black 

 and red ants, so excessively numerous in the valley of Pinang. Water it 

 always took when offered, lapping it up with the tongue in the same 

 manner that serpents drink. 



Costse verse 8 pairs; spuriee 7 pairs =15 pairs. The ensiform process 

 of the os sternum is greatly elongated, terminating in a broad, rounded, 

 thin cartilaginous plate. 



PACHYDERMATA. 



Proboscoidea. 

 Gen. — Elephas, Linne. 



Elephas indicus, Linne. 



Syn. — " Gajah" of the Malays. 

 Hab. — Malayan Peninsula. 



India, Burma, Siam, Ceylon, Sumatra, Borneo. 



