184 RUMINANTIA. 



This is somewhat like the bottom of the vagina in the cow, sheep, ifec. 

 There are two horns to the uterus, which are short ; the inner surface 

 is pretty smooth ; not protuberated, as in the cow \ There is a large 

 capsula ovarii, which has a kind of double pouch ; one very long 2 , the 

 other not so deep. 



[Pygmy Musk-deer, Moschus (Tragulus) Kanchil 1 ? 3 ] 



A small laminating animal, from the Prince of Wales's Island, 

 called a Beer : given me by the Duke of Portland. 



It is about the size of a common cat, of a reddish-brown colour on 

 the back and sides, but white on the under surface and inside of the 

 legs 4 . It has pretty short and rather broad ears; large eyes; no 

 gland at the inner canthus 5 ; tail short; it is cloven-footed, with two 

 back-hoofs : has four nipples. The termination of the vagina is hardly 

 peaked. 



It appears to have but two cavities to the stomach : however, the 

 second, although not so distinctly a bag as in many others of this 

 order of animals, yet we can see to be in a slight degree honey- 

 combed : and, if we were to take our account of such stomachs from 

 this, we should not from it alone be led to suppose these to be two cavi- 

 ties. It has no third cavity, viz. the ' book ' [lamellated bag or ' psalte- 

 rium '] ; but the true stomach, which is the fourth in most, is long. 

 From this account this animal has, in reality, only two distinct cavities 

 to its stomach 6 . 



1 [There are no uterine or maternal cotyledons, no foetal cotyledons being developed 

 on the chorion.] 



- [The ' very long ' pouch would seem to apply to the space included between two 

 of the longitudinal folds of the aperture of the Fallopian tube, which is expanded to 

 form the pouch. See Hunt. Preps. Nos. 2766, 2767.] 



3 [The skeleton of this animal is No. 3199, Osteol. Series.] 



4 [" Moschus Kanchil, Raffles, dorso saturate rufo-fusco, — ventre artuumque latere 

 iuterno albis."— -Fischer, Synops. Mamm. 8vo. 1829, p. 440. The animal may have- 

 been brought from Java to Pulo Penang, and thence to England.] 



s [Hunt, Prep. No. 1786.] 



6 [This modification of the ruminant stomach I found, by dissection of species of 

 Tragulus, Brisson, at the Zoological Gardens, in 1837, to be characteristic of that 

 genus of pygmy deer (Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 1848) : the 

 description of the Hunterian preparation of the ruminant stomach, No. 554, in 

 wliich the absence of the longitudinal lamella;, characteristic of the third cavity, is 

 noted, was published in the first volume of my ' Physiological Catalogue,' 4to. 1833 ; 

 and the structure is there referred to a small ruminant, " probably of the genus 

 Moschus, Linn.." p. 165. Sir Everard Home, as usual, merely copies the nameof the 

 animal as given in the Hunterian MS., without any attempt to determine the 



