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and ileum, which pass down on that edge, making many short convolu- 

 tions. The ileum passes upwards, and is more straight at its termination 

 than in the rest of its course ; and enters the colon on the right side. 

 The caecum lies on the right side ; its lower end on the right of the 

 pelvis. 



(Ce)i)us Axis, Erxl. fcem.?) 



An animal to external appearance of the deer-kind, but rather shorter 

 legs, and broader ears, without antlers, which I suppose was owing to 

 its being a female. Brown like the deer, with lighter spots. The hair 

 somewhat like the musk-deer's, but not so strong. The arm part of its 

 fore-legs was thick and strong. 



The stomach is like that of a goat. The duodenum passes down the 

 right, not very loose, and then passes up again behind the root of the 

 mesentery, before it becomes loose. The jejunum is a loose gut, strung 

 to the anterior edge of the mesentery, in a line with the back. The 

 last part of the ileum passes up almost straight, without convolutions, 

 to near the emersion of the duodenum, or root of the mesentery, along 

 the posterior edge of the mesentery ; and passes into the caecum. This 

 is on the right of the mesentery, lying mostly in the direction of the 

 body, having its blind end towards the pelvis ; it is the largest part of 

 any of the guts. The colon passes to the left surface of the mesentery, 

 and makes several oblong spiral turns on the mesentery, towards the 

 centre ; then is winded back upon the former turns, just describing as 

 many back again. Having finished these corresponding turns, it passes 

 round the mesentery pretty near the ileum and jejunum, to the root of 

 the mesentery ; from thence it passes down the back to the pelvis : in 

 this last place it forms the' knotted faeces. The colon in this animal 

 cannot be called a reservoir 1 . From the turns of the colon, this deer, 

 in that respect, comes nearest to the goat of any animal that I have 

 dissected. 



The liver is but small, of the flat kind, and has but one lobe. There 

 is no gall-bladder. 



The kidneys are like those of a sheep, deer, &c. The female parts 

 are like those of a deer. It has four nipples. 



There are eight incisor teeth in the lower jaw ; but none in the upper 2 . 



1 [Probably referring to some expression as to the use of the human colon in the 

 Anatomical Lectures.] 



- [These notes would seem to have been penned at an early period in Hunter's 

 zootomical researches.] 



