52 CARNIVORA. 



There are two swellings [anal glands] on the perineum, one on each 

 side, making a hollow there, between the anus and vagina, in which 

 rises the edge of the vagina. The ducts of those glands open into this 

 hollow. These two glands appear like the testicles of some animals, 

 such as the bear. It has four nipples, two between the hind-legs, two 

 on the belly. The tongue is a little rough, but not so much so as a 

 cat's. The mouth is almost filled with teeth ; more of the bear-kind 

 than of the cat. 



The stomach is a good deal of the shape of a lion's, pretty much bent 

 upon itself near the pylorus. The duodenum passes down the right 

 side to near the pelvis, bending round the root of the mesentery to the 

 left of it ; then becoming loose again, and thrown into convolutions ; it 

 approaches to the right again on the edge of that membrane, and then 

 gets upon the fore-part of the root closely connected to it, the duodenum 

 being behind, as it were crossing one another : when [the small intes- 

 tine has] got to the left of the mesentery again, it passes down towards 

 the pelvis, and enters into the colon or rectum. The caecum is short, 

 very much the shape of a cat's, is on the left of the ileum where it 

 enters, and it stands in the direction of the rectum, which is straight 

 from the point of the caecum 1 . 



The liver may be said to be divided into five or six lobes : one on the 

 left, one in the middle, which is almost divided into three by the 

 falciform ligament and gall-bladder, two upon the right side, which are 

 the smallest, and the lobulus Spigelii : this lies behind the little epiploon, 

 filling up exactly the curve of the liver, like a tongue. The epiploon is 

 attached to the stomach, pylorus, duodenum, pancreas, and spleen. The 

 pancreas has no process or small pancreas passing in the curve of the 

 duodenum ; but the body of the pancreas which crosses the spine is 

 rather thicker than in animals of the same size which have the small 

 pancreas. The kidneys are similar to those of a cat. 



At the sides of the anus there are two bags, as in many other animals, 

 with two glandular bodies in each. The interior coat is like white 

 silk, whose duets enter or open just at the termination of the anus. 

 The contents are a thin yellow liquor, very foetid, and has a kind of 

 deposit. On each side of the mouth of the vagina are placed two oblong 

 glands, which make two swellings there ; with the lips of the vagina 

 at the bottom of the sulcus made by these. These glands have a vast 

 number of ducts ramifying through their substance, which opens on the 

 inside of the sulcus. These duets are filled with a thick substance 



1 [Home refers his transcript of these notes (Comp. Anat. i. p. 438) to the 

 'G-enetta,' — the name applied to the animal by Hunter; but the description and 

 parts preserved show that it was the Zibet.] 



