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The duodenum passes down the right, and then makes a pretty quick 

 bend across the spine and up to the left, attached in this course to the 

 turns of the colon. The jejunum and ileum are small and of consider- 

 able length. The caecum is pretty long, and is the largest intestine ; it 

 passes up the abdomen on the right side. The colon makes a turn on 

 and behind itself towards the left, behind the root of the mesentery, and 

 passes down behind that membrane between the caecum and small intes- 

 tines, and makes two complete turns within itself ; but the last passes 

 down behind the others some way 1 . It is then reflected back, making 

 as many turns between the others ; sweeps round the mesentery just 

 within the small intestines, joins the duodenum, going back the same 

 course towards the right, and becoming here larger ; it then makes a 

 sweep to the left, before the root of the mesentery, and passing down, 

 commences the rectum, which has a cuticle a little way up. 



The liver has only one lobe ; however, the lobulus Spigelii is pretty 

 distinct. There is a gall-bladder of a globular figure, which is attached 

 by a pretty broad surface to the under flat surface of the liver. The 

 hepatic duct is short, and enters the cystic near the bladder ; there 

 is a long small common duct passing to the duodenum. The pancreas 

 shows nothing uncommon, the kidneys are conglobate. 



Female Parts of Generation 2 . — I have observed that it has hardly any 

 ' peak ' at the beginning of the vagina. The vagina is wide, and at the 

 upper part has hardly any of that valvular structure we find in the 

 ruminants. The uterus soon divides into the two horns, which are 

 pretty large and not long ; having none of the buttons for the coty- 

 ledons 3 . At the termination of the horns there is a fringe, in which 

 the Fallopian tube opens or begins. The Fallopian tube passes on the 

 capsula of the ovarii, in such a quick serpentine course, as to make the 

 edge appear scolloped : the capsula is large. 



species; and writes: — "In the small deer from Prince of Wales's Island in the East 

 Indies, which differs from the rest of its tribe in having no third cavity to the 

 stomach, theceecum is larger, longer, and the rectum of unusual size." — Comp. Anat. 

 toI. i. p. 466. This modification of the ruminant stomach in the Moschus ( Tragulus) 

 Javanicus is described and figured by Prof. Rapp in Wiegmann's ' Archiv fur 

 Naturgeschichte,' 1843, p. 43. The true musk-deer {Moschus moschiferus, Linn.) has 

 the psalterium normally developed, and this adds to the utility of the distinct generic 

 name for the smaller chevrotains : they may be said to retain, with their diminutive 

 size, an embryonal simplicity of the ruminant digestive organ.] 

 1 [Hunt. Prep. No. 735.] 2 [Hunt. Prep. No. 2754.] 



3 [This would imply that the chorion had a uniform villosity, as in the camel- 

 tribe, and be another argument for the generic distinction of Tragulus.'] 



