56 CARNIVORA. 



forwards, but they would appear to be only the ends of these circles 

 remaining backwards. It has a snout like a hog, but not so projecting : 

 this terminates in an edge all round, which is a little hard, and the 

 greater motion of the snout is chiefly in that edge. The hair is like the 

 rat's ; there is. none on the soles of the feet or palms of the hands ; and 

 very little on the back of these parts : so far it is like the rat ; but all 

 along that edge which terminates [defines] the back of the foot and toes 

 from the sole, and the hand and fingers from the fore palm, there is a 

 row of hair much stronger and lighter than anywhere else, excepting 

 on the tail. The tail is covered with pretty soft short hair above and 

 below ; but on the sides and end it is stronger and whiter. The tail 

 would appear to stand up like the hare's. There are three grinders, 

 and two cuspidate instead of two bicuspids 1 . The tusks are round, but 

 a little flattened, and pretty long : six incisores. The grinders are as 

 a line, having two rows of points. 



The stomach is like the ferret's or pole -cat's, large or thick at the 

 left end, but does not project much beyond the entrance of the oeso- 

 phagus. The duodenum has a pretty broad mesentery ; and this, as the 

 duodenum passes behind it, becomes pretty loose, and immediately 

 becomes looser, forming the mesentery of the ileum. The ileum passes 

 up the right, and before the root of the mesentery ; or rather upon the 

 right, it passes into the colon. The caecum is above an inch in length, is 

 a little bent, having on the concave side a [patch of glands] 2 , which 

 terminates in an oblong end. The colon passes to the left before the 

 root of the mesentery, to which it adheres by a narrow mesocolon, and 

 then bends down to the pelvis, having a mesocolon : it is pretty large. 



The anus, or rather rectum, terminates in a round broad concave 

 surface, which is glandular on its whole surface : this part has no hair, 

 is something like that in the badger, but is not so deep ; and is also 

 like that in the hyaena, but also is not so deep. The small intestines 

 are something more than three times the whole length of the body of 

 the animal : the large gut is more than half that length. The great 

 epiploon is not attached to the colon ; it is pretty broad, so as to cover 

 the whole intestines. 



The spleen is a pretty long flat body, and not very narrow. The 

 liver has four lobes, the second from the left being the largest ; it has a 

 long fissure in it for the passage of the round ligament. The right 



1 [Of the five teeth of the molar series two only are true molars, three are pre- 

 molars, displacing as many deciduous teeth, on each side of both jaws : the dental 



formula of Bhyzeena is: — i ^—^ c ^, p ^-^ m ~^ =36.] 



2 [This I observed in the dissection of a suricate at the Zoological Gardens, London.] 



