62 CARNIVORA. 



adheres to the vena cava, not to the kidneys ; that of the left side 

 adheres closely to the aorta. 



The sclerotic coat is pretty thick, but becomes thickest at the cornea. 

 The pigmentum nigrum is both on the outside and inside, excepting 

 where the choroid is white ; it is not there on the inside. This white 

 colour on the inside is not tendinous, as it appears to be, but is an 

 album pigmentum. * 



Female parts of Generation 1 . — From the external labia to the begin- 

 ning of the vagina measures about 3 inches ; in a wolf not 2 inches. 

 Just at the lower angle of the external vagina [a groove] leads on 

 to the clitoris, which is a broad rugous surface surrounded almost 

 with a doubling of the internal membrane which is like a half valve. 

 The beginning of the true vagina is pretty narrow, about an inch in 

 diameter, becoming very large just behind the pubis; from thence it 

 becomes smaller and smaller to the os tincae, where it is little more 

 than half an inch in diameter. The internal surface is thrown into 

 longitudinal rugae like those of a contracted stomach, which become 

 very high, and go on to the os tincae. The length of the true vagina 

 is about 8 inches. The os tineas stands pretty prominent in the vagina 

 and is thicker than in any part of the uterus, with a number of rugae 

 on its inside. The uterus is but very thin, becoming of a darker colour 

 towards the fundus, and is somewhat villous upon its inner sur- 

 face. It is about 4 inches in length, and seems to divide into two 

 Fallopian tubes ; each passes towards the groin of the same side, as high 

 almost as the kidney, and is attached to it by a fatty ligament. 

 The cornua uteri are a quarter of an inch in diameter. The inner 

 coat is as dark as the venal blood, which is owing to the blood in the 

 vessels, for by being exposed to the air it became florid. They are 

 about a foot long, and have a vast number of flat eminences close 

 together on the inner surface. The cornua end in a blunt caecum, 

 which does not admit air to pass; and, where they end, there is a 

 large bag surrounded with fat with an opening on one side of it, not at 

 the end. On one side of this opening, which is about the bigness of 

 one's thumb, is placed the ovarium ; and on the other side of the 

 opening is the morsus diaboli, which seems to be no more than a red 

 villous surface for the side of this opening ; and as the orifice is alwavs 

 shut, the morsus diaboli and ovaria are always in contact, and the 

 termination of the Fallopian tube is at one of the angles of the opening. 

 The broad ligaments are very large, extending from the sides of the 



1 [Hunt. Prep. No. 2800. The foetus and foetal membranes form the Preps. Nos. 

 3567—3571, 3715, 3716.] 



