PUTORIUS FURO. 67 



The right lung is divided into four lobes, the left into two ; that is, 

 the right has a lobe below the heart between the two ligaments which 

 attach the heart to the diaphragm, which the human subject has not. 



The oesophagus is about half an inch long below the diaphragm. The 

 stomach is pretty much like the human or dog's. The intestines, as to 

 situation, are the same as in a dog. It has no caecum, [being in this 

 respect] like the bear, racoon, stoat, hedgehog, and badger. The 

 rectum becomes a little larger and stronger towards the anus. 



The length of the intestine is three times and a half the length of the 

 animal. It has those bags on the sides of the anus 1 ; and about the 

 verge of the anus there are a great many sebaceous glands. The muscle 

 of the anus is like the racoon's. 



The ' pancreas Asellii' is very complete, and all the mesenteric vessels 

 pass through it ; besides which there are a great many small lymphatic 

 glands on the mesocolon. 



The liver is divided into five lobes and the lobulus Spigelii ; the gall- 

 bladder is fixed in a very deep fissure in the middle lobe ; and on the 

 vessels that pass to the liver there are two lymphatic glands. The 

 ductus cysticus seems to be the stem, and the hepatic duct a branch, as 

 in the badger or racoon, and the common duct enters [the duodenum] 

 about an inch beyond the pancreatic, as in the badger. The spleen is as 

 in a dog : also the pancreas and epiploon. The right kidney is higher 

 than the left. The capsula renalis is as in a dog. 



The eye is like the racoon's, only I cannot find any pigmentum 

 nigrum on the anterior surface of the iris. 



The parts of generation in the male are a good deal like the racoon's, 

 only that the bone [of the penis] is not of the same shape, and there is no 

 loose membrane on the end of the penis. There are no vesiculae semi- 

 nales ; but there is a small cavity between the two vasa deferentia, at 

 their entrance into the urethra, which will admit the small end of a 

 small blowpipe : but I could not find any natural opening into it ; for 

 when I cut into the most distant part of it from the urethra, I could not 

 blow air into the urethra, nor pass a bristle through ; nor could I find 

 any communication between it and the vasa deferentia. 



The parts of generation of the female are like those of a badger. 



The Ferret (Putorius Furo, var. Cuv. 2 ). 

 The larynx is as in a racoon. The tongue is pretty rough, but not 

 so much as in the cat or lion, but is of that sort of roughness. It has 

 no worm [lytta]. 



1 |Hunt. Prep. No. 2142.] 



2 [The skull of this specimen is No. 4214, Osteol. Series.] 



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