8& CARNIVORA. 



they have a lateral motion in their joints which admit of a greater 

 'variety and quantity of motion in them, hut they are all in the same 

 line. The second and third toes on the outsides are the longest and 

 strongest in both the fore- and hind-feet. The fourth in the fore-foot 

 is larger than the first, hut the thumb is the smallest of any. The fourth 

 in the hind-foot is rather the reverse of that in the fore-foot ; it is 

 smaller than the first, and the fifth is still smaller ; so that what answers 

 to our thumbs and great toes are the smallest. The claws are like the 

 bear's, and are in proportion to the size of the toe : the first joint is a 

 little bent upwards, the second a good deal downwards, which of course 

 obliges the third to bend up. 



The hair is pretty thick or close, short and strong, of a yellowish 

 brown, dark on the back and sides, and lighter on the belly : down the 

 back it is the darkest, almost approaching to a streak. The tail is rather 

 darker than the sides, and at the tip there is something like a ring ; the 

 hair is all round it from end to end : the tail is long and curls at the 

 tip, fit to cling round anything. 



This animal is either towards the beginning or ending of that class 

 called Lemur by Linnasus, or the [Loris or Maki] of Buffon; but I 

 believe that all those have a thumb on all the feet, and a nail on these 

 thumbs. 



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

 large end of the stomach is pretty projecting beyond the oesophagus ; 

 the stomach passes to the right a little obliquely and then bends up 

 pretty quickly towards the liver, and terminates in the pylorus. From 

 thence the duodenum passes to the right, having a mesoduodenum ; then 

 to the left behind the root of the mesentery, where it is a little more 

 fixed ; it then becomes loose, and its general course is towards the right : 

 it passes from the right across the upper and fore-part of the mesentery 

 to the left, and then down the left loins to the pelvis. In this course 

 the intestinal canal becomes a little larger, but there is no caecum. 



The liver is divided into five lobes; the left is pretty large; the 

 second is larger, and has two fissures in it, one for the ligamentum 

 suspensorium, the other for the gall-bladder : the third lobe is quite 

 on the right loins, and is small : the fourth lobe is a little lower in the 

 loins, and is connected with the fifth, or lobulus Spigelii, through the 

 passage behind the vessels of the liver. 



The pancreas has two [lobes or divisions], the long and the short. 

 The spleen is as in a dog. The epiploon is attached to the stomach, 

 spleen, and pancreas. 



The kidneys are conglobate. The testicles are quite out of the belly 

 on the pubis: the scrotum is little more than the common skin. There are 



