90 CARNIVORA. 



figure is exactly the same. Its fore- and hind-feet are much the same 

 with the bear, viz. [as to] the nails and the surface that it treads upon. 



The nose projects a good way beyond the mouth. The projection of 

 the nose is in the gristly part, and this is as much convoluted on the 

 inside as the bony part of the nose. Why there should be such pro- 

 jection in the nose, more than in a dog, &c. which are obliged to live 

 by smell, I do not know. 



The coati-mondi is exactly the same, only differing in size. The 

 contents of the thorax are similar to a dog's. The stomach is as in a 

 dog: the duodenum is the same. There is no caecum, but the last of 

 the intestines, or colon, where it crosses the mesentery, is attached to 

 the root of the mesentery, and then goes down to form the rectum. 

 There are small bags [one] on each side of the anus. 



The liver is divided into many lobes. The gall-bladder is attached 

 as usual, and the duets passed into the duodenum near the pylorus. 

 The spleen and kidneys are as in a dog : the bladder likewise. It has 

 no vesicula seminalis. The penis has a bone in it, but projects beyond 

 the belly about an inch, because the prepuce will not allow it to pass 

 further. 



It has a cavity between the pharynx and the first and second vertebrae 

 of the neck, which is pretty large, and seems to communicate with the 

 canal of the medulla spinalis between those vertebra?. This is the same 

 in a racoon ; and in them it lies upon the cuneiform process of the 

 second vertebra of the neck and the os occipitis. It communicates with 

 the cavity of the joint between the os occipitis and the first vertebra: 

 it sends a process between the first vertebra and the rectus capitis 

 anticus muscle, which, when blown into, swells on the outside of that 

 muscle towards the transverse process of the atlas. 



There are two of these [sacs or cavities] divided by a septum ; but 

 this septum is not complete, being only attached to the occiput, the first 

 and second vertebras, at three different places ; so that there is a com- 

 munication between the two lateral sacs ; but, between these attach- 

 ments, it seems to be analogous to a sacculus mucosus [bursa mucosa]. 



The eye is much smaller than a cat's or a dog's of the same size. 

 The muscles are as in a lion. The humours are as common. The 

 coats as in the racoon. 



The duct of the parotid gland passes over the masseter. 



Osteol. Series. Sir E. Home notices the anatomy of this animal under the name of 

 •the Swash.' — Comp. Anat. i. p. 431.] 



