74 CARNIVORA. 



The urinary bladder is very pendulous : it is attached to the abdominal 

 muscles by a thin ligament, like that of the liver. 



The vasa deferentia, before they enter the urethra, become spongy on 

 the inside, and thick in their coats. Between the two there is a small 

 body or canal which enters the urethra at the caput gallinaginis, but not 

 with the vasa deferentia. The loose skin on the glans penis of an otter 

 is something like the lungs of a tortoise when inflated : in the inflation 

 of it we can easily raise the lymphatics on the penis. That part of the 

 penis that is between the bone and crura is very elastic. There is a 

 scrotum covered with hair not pendulous 1 . 



The clitoris is within the common vagina, enclosed in a preputium, 

 and the two lateral edges tucked in, making, with the edge of the peri- 

 neum, a kind of vulva. The common vagina is 2 inches long, and hardly 

 distinguishable from the true, excepting by the orifice of the urethra. 



A uterus with two horns, and the ovaria enclosed [each] within a 

 thin but pretty strong bag, having the Fallopian tube passing quite round 

 it, and opening into this bag just at the termination of the horn. When 

 I made a small hole into this bag, the air escaped by the sides of the 

 pipe and got into the tube. 



[The Grison (Galictis vittata, Bell).] 



An animal about the size of a coati mondi, having a head something 

 like that of a badger, with hardly any external ears, the cartilages only 

 making flat ridges : it is pretty long and round in its body, with short 

 and thick legs, longish toes, and close, and with rather straight and 

 long nails, especially upon the fore-toes. 



With a grey forehead which runs back over the neck and shoulders 

 to the tail, making a straight line on each side 4 or 5 inches broad 

 on the back. The hair black on the belly, but very little of it. The 

 hair of the animal is short and strong. 



The viscera as in the bear, racoon, badger, and polecat. At the verge 

 of the anus is an irregular siu;face, which is neither rectum nor true skin, 

 about the breadth of half-a-crown. The penis runs along the belly : 

 the prepuce projects a little downward, and is a very loose skin. 



The testicles lie between the anus and the orifice of the prepuce, in a 

 small scrotum just large enough to hold them : they are not pendulous 

 with one end down, as in an ox, &c, but lie more flat on the pubis. 



1 [Hunt. Prep. No. 2519.] 



