146 RUMINANTIA. 



the body, having long small legs ; with a short tail rather longer than 

 a goat's, and a long small neck. It is of a red br#m with a dark 

 streak along the lower part of the side, where the red hair of the side 

 is terminating in the white of the belly, which extends from the ilank 

 forwards to the fore-leg and passes a little way down the back part of it. 

 At the posterior edge of the hip, near the vagina, there are some black 

 hairs. The hair of the belly is white, which becomes darker by degrees 

 along the neck to the chin, and backward to the anus, also to the inside 

 of the thighs and arms. It has long pasterns, which have a motion on 

 one another backwards and forwards; there is, therefore, a cavity 

 between the lower ends of the pastern bones for this motion. 



There are two nipples and two udders, with two glands by the 

 udders ; but I did not find any ducts to them. On each side of the 

 udder is a cavity which is smeared over with a yellow mucus, like the 

 wax of the ear. 



A little way beyond the pylorus the duodenum makes a short fold or 

 doubling upon itself, then passes down the right side, having a short 

 mesentery, which becomes broader downwards ; it then makes a turn 

 towards the left, and upwards, winding round to the left, and to the 

 root of the mesentery, and then becomes loose. The jejunum is strung 

 upon the lower or anterior edge of the mesentery, and when got to the 

 right it passes [as ileum] almost directly upwards on the left of the 

 csecum, and on the anterior surface of the mesentery, and dips into the 

 caacum. This is long, a little bent or curved, and is the largest intes- 

 tine, adhering to the right edge of the mesenteiy, which is its broadest 

 part. The colon passes a little higher and makes a loose turn back- 

 wards, round the right edge of the root of the mesentery, and then gets 

 on the posterior surface of it, which is the beginning of the spiral turns. 

 The inward turns are two and a half without the caecum, three with it ; 

 the outward turns are one and near the whole of another. The colon 

 then passes along the mesentery near to the ileum and jejunums nearest 

 to the ileum ; and, as it ascends along the mesentery, it recedes from 

 the small guts further ; but when near to the beginning of the mesentery 

 it passes round behind it to the right side and joins the first bend of the 

 colon, and then passes to the left before the root of the mesentery, 

 making a complete turn round it : it then passes down to the pelvis. 



The liver is flat, having two fissures, the left being for the umbilical 

 vein of the foetus ; there is a lobulus Spigelii. The gall-bladder is very 

 small, lving in a sulcus of the middle portion between the two fissures, 

 and would hardly answer any great purpose. (In the antelope it is not 

 very small.) 



The uterus, &c. are like those parts in all this class. 



