CERVUS DAM A. 139 



The antlers of a buck are not always fellows ; sometimes one has 

 one or more branches more than the other : when that is the case, the 

 branches, or some one branch, of the antler that has fewest, are, or is, 

 larger than the corresponding branches or branch of the other antler ; 

 so that the quantity of bone is pretty equal on both sides. 



Mr. Cartwright, Capt. Cartwright's brother, went to see the rein- 

 deer at Hackney, from either Norway, Denmark, or Sweden ; and 

 Jie said that they were exactly similar to those on the coast of 

 Labrador. 



The Deer \_Cervus Damn, Linn. 1 ]. 



The stomach of the deer is as in the nylghau; also the epiploon 

 and duodenum ; only no mesentery 2 . The edge of the [intestinal or 

 true] mesentery is very oblique, almost horizontal. There is one lym- 

 phatic [lacteal] gland running along it. The ileum passes into the 

 colon on the right, not on the edge of the mesentery, but on its anterior 

 surface, or on that part which is attached to the csecum. This is pretty 

 large, about one foot long, and passes up to the colon, attached to the 

 ileum by the mesentery 3 . The colon, at first, makes a pretty quick 

 turn, as in the figure 4 , and, as it were, towards the left behind itself, 

 and begins to make very irregular turns upon itself ; it then gets on 

 the left and posterior surface of the mesenteiy, passing up towards the 

 beginning of the jejunum ; then follows the course of the duodenum, 

 gets on the right of the root of the mesentery, crosses it on the ante- 

 rior part to the left, and passes down the back near its middle to the 

 pelvis. The beginning of the colon is large ; but becomes small when 

 it is a little advanced in its first turn, and the straight part is also 

 larger : it is in these turns that the faeces get into their divisions or 

 pellets. 



The fiver is wholly on the right side, is flat, and one body with a 

 fissure for the vein ; part of it lies behind the little epiploon, but is not 

 a distinct lobe. There is no gall-bladder. 



The right kidney is the highest, and lies before tbe left of the spine, 

 not in the loins : that space is occupied by the first bag of the stomach. 

 There is one superior vena cava. The vena azygos on the left side passes 



1 [The Hunterian preparations are of this species, not of the red deer.] 



2 [Or rather no ' mesogastry,' or peritoneal folds uniting together the parts of the 

 stomach.] 



3 [Home, Comp. Anat. i. p. 466.] 



4 [This is the figure engraved in Home, torn. cit. tab. csxxi. All the plates of the 

 ' course of the intestines ' in this work are from Hunter's original drawings, now 

 preserved in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons.] 



