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part of the epiploon. The kidneys are conglobate : the capsulse renales 

 are prominent and pretty large. 



The two ventricles of the heart are long, and nearly of the same 

 thickness at the base and point : the right auricle is the highest. 



The lungs on the right side are divided into three lobes, besides the 

 lobe behind the vena cava inferior. The left lung is divided into two 

 lobes. 



The external parts of the organs of generation in the female are the 

 clitoris and opening of the vagina or vulva. The clitoris stands upon 

 a prominence which is common to it and the urethra, as in the other 

 [tardigrade Lemur]. The clitoris has two prepuces, one within the 

 other. The meatus urinarius opens just behind the clitoris on the same 

 point. The vagina opens just at the posterior base of the clitoris, about 

 an inch below or before the anus ; it is pretty large at the opening. The 

 vagina is very long, but does not project further beyond the bladder 

 than is common in other animals, owing to the urethra being very long 

 and being attached to the inside of the abdominal muscles nearly through- 

 out its whole length, which throws the bladder more into the belly ; the 

 symphysis of the pubis being very short. The vagina is thrown into 

 longitudinal folds. Os tineas none. The cornua uteri short and a little 

 bulbous. The ovaria appear as if compounded of small bodies. The 

 meso-tubae-Fallopianae ['broad ligaments' of anthropotomy) hardly 

 makes a capsula [for the ovarium] \ 



The eyelids are almost transverse. The eye is large and prominent 

 in the head. The cornea is large, so that the tunica sclerotica is hardly 

 ever seen. It is a segment of a smaller circle than the sclerotic, 

 although a larger segment than in most animals. There is a great deal 

 of pigment on both sides of the choroid. 



[Order Carnivora. 



Section Digitigrada. 



Family FELID^.] 



Op the Lion and its gradations. 



Lions, tigers, leopards, &c, are all said to be of the cat-kind, and 

 indeed from their shape, manner, disposition, and way of life, it seems 

 very reasonable to suppose so. Yet I should suppose that there are 

 two classes of them (and perhaps many more). One reason for this 

 opinion is, that their voices differ ; and we find a difference in their 

 organs of voice, which is most likely the cause of that difference in the 



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