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It does not enter by a projection, as in the human, but rather like the 

 ureter [as it enters the bladder]. 



The pancreas I could not make out. 



The spleen is broad, and attached closely to the left side of the 

 stomach near the diaphragm, as in this animal it cannot be said to be 

 in a doubling of epiploon. 



The kidneys are conglobate. 



The ' bearing ' [external female part] is like the sheep's, and comes 

 to a point, in which is the clitoris. The urethra enters the vagina 

 about 4 inches from the external opening, or ' bearing.' The vagina is 

 large until it comes to the different projecting parts. On looking on 

 the first of these, we see both first and second, the second projecting 

 through the first. These projections are five in number, becoming 

 smaller and smaller upwards, and then the uterus or vagina divides 

 into two horns. The large or first part of the vagina is soft in texture, 

 but at those projecting parts it is firm. The uterine horns are short, 

 and have cotyledons. The ovaria are oblong. The capsula ovarii is 

 hardly deserving that name 1 . 



The two toes, also the two back ones, have more motion than is 

 common in other animals. They are capable of spreading very con- 

 siderably when extended, especially the two large ones ; but, in their 

 flexion, they come close together, even overlap, if one comes in first ; 

 so that the points touch ; and when they are inflected, in walking, the 

 two toes are heard striking against each other, and this stroke is in 

 proportion to the quickness of then' motion. In the dead rein-deer this 

 can be produced ; for it needs only to lay hold of the flexor tendon and 

 propel and relax it alternately, and the click is produced. 



Is the broad foot of this deer for the purpose of walking on the snow? 

 They almost tread on the fetlock joint and the two back hoofs come 

 upon the ground, which increases the breadth of the surface of the tread. 

 The whole foot is well adapted to walking either on the ice or snow. 

 The hoofs are flat and broad, and they admit of a very considerable 

 separation from each other. , 



[Family ANTILOPID^E.] 

 Le Corine, of Buffon 2 [Antilope Dorcas, foem. : A. Corinna, Pallas] . 

 This animal is about the size of a common goat, small and round in 



1 [Hunt. Prep. No. 2755.] - [Histoire Naturelle, 4to, torn. xii. p. 261.] 



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