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portion of this lobe has the small gall-bladder attached to it. The 

 pancreas lies across the body, in the epiploon. The kidneys are con- 

 globate, having some veins running on the external surface, which is 

 an approach towards the Hon, &c. 



The scrotum is pretty large, but not pendulous, as in the bull, <fec. 

 The penis rises out of the anterior part of the scrotum like a nipple, 

 similar to the cat's : I should suppose the animal to be rather retro- 

 mingent 1 . 



The bladder of urine is pendulous. The urethra opens on the point 

 of the clitoris, as in the rat. 



Around the pupil there is no pigmentum album. The membrana 

 nic titans is broad, and is capable of covering the whole eye. 



[The Striped Hyaena {Hycena vulgaris, Desm.).] 

 Of the Hyaena^. 



The hysena is some degree removed from the lion towards many of 

 the other Carnivora. It seems to be one remove from the civet-cat 

 kind. It has nothing of the external figure of the Hon, nor is it exactly 

 similar to any other. The extremities are mostly those of a dog ; but 

 there is rather more motion in the joint of the wrist and ankle ; and 

 the head and ears have a great Hkeness to those of that animal ; only 

 that the ears are mostly erect, and have no hair upon them. The neck 

 is shorter and thicker ; the hair is longer on the upper part of the neck 

 and along the back than anywhere else, something similar to a horse's 

 mane, or to the bristles of a boar. In its manner of feeding the hysena 

 is not similar to the lion ; for the Hon eats no bones excepting they are 

 smaU, such as the bones of a fowl, &c, but only chooses to eat the 

 flesh : the hyaena likes to gnaw the bones and swaUow them much more 

 than what dogs do ; and its jaws and teeth are perhaps the best adapted 

 for this. Give a hyaena a sheep's head, and he wiU crunch the whole ; 

 whereas a lion will only eat the flesh. 



There is no thyroid gland 3 . The loins are short, and the ribs come 

 very low, which shortens the abdomen vastly. The crura of the dia- 

 phragm come very low, so as to obHge the kidneys to. He upon the brim 

 of the pelvis, especiaUy the left. 



The stomach, duodenum, jejunum, and ileum, are the same as in a 



1 [I believe the preparation of the male organs, No. 2515, to be of this animal; 

 those parts from the suricate dissected at the Zoological Gardens, are placed by the 

 side of the Hunterian preparation for comparison: see No. 2515 A. Physiol. Catal. 

 vol. iv. p. 84.] 



2 [The skull and many bones of this specimen areNos. 4449 eb seq., Osteol. Catal.] 



3 [The hyfenas, both striped and spotted, dissected by me, possessed the thyroid 

 gland in two separate halves or lobes.] 



