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in the bitch ; but the true vagina is not so rugous nor of a dark colour ; 

 and just at the angle of the external labia there was a little knob, 

 about the bigness of a small pea, which contained a brown fluid ; but I 

 could not find any duct from it. The orifice of the capsula ovarii would 

 only admit a probe. The ovaria are attached to the kidney and to the 

 abdomen; however, the ligamentum rotundum has not such a broad 

 ligament, and does not convey a process of the peritoneum. 

 The racoon has two nipples on each side. 



In a white animal (or rather yellow like a ferret), just the shape of 

 a racoon, and indeed I believe only a white one 1 , I found the viscera 

 just like a racoon's, and that the ileum was inserted valvularly into the 

 colon about a foot or more from the anus, as in the racoon. The colon 

 was rather larger and stronger than the other intestines. The epiploon 

 covers the intestines both before and behind. 



The female parts of generation were like the racoon's. 



When living, it had the eyes of the ferret, and on dissection I found 

 no nigrum pigmentum, neither on the outside nor the inside of the 

 choroid ; nor on either side of the iris : but, at the usual place where 

 other animals have the album pigmentum, this animal had it. The 

 choroid coat was very thin, and almost transparent : the iris was nearly 

 transparent. The retina was much thinner than common. The cry- 

 stalline humour was very large ; its outer part dissolved into a water, 

 but its middle part was very hard. This animal sees best in the dark ; 

 daylight is too much for it, and then it can contract its iris so much as 

 to shut up the pupils, and the light is obliged to pass through the iris. 



[The Kinkajou {Cercoleptes caudivolvulus, Illig. ; Potto, Bewick ; 

 Yellow Macauco, Pennant ; Prehensile Weasel, Shaw) .] 



An animal (of which I made a Drawing) from South America, given 

 me by Dr. M c Kenzie, of Jamaica. 



It is rather less than a mongoose, but has a good deal the air of one. 

 It has a short pointed nose, and is pretty broad between the ears, so 

 that the head is a cone. The ears are round, short, and turned almost 

 directly forward. The nose is dark. The lower jaw is a little way 

 under the upper. The body is pretty long. It walks nearly on the 

 whole sole of the feet, but most so in the fore-feet : the soles and toes 

 are bare ; those of the fore-feet most so. Its toes are five on each foot ; 



1 [Bewick's figure of the carcajou was taken from a white variety in the Menagerie 

 of the Tower of London, in his ' History of Quadrupeds,' p. 284.] 



