156 UUMINANTIA. 



The clitoris is a small pyramidal knob just within the peak of the 

 external parts. The common vagina is not above three inches long ; 

 and where it ends, or properly begins, there is a sort of stricture. The 

 meatus urinarius terminates in the common vagina, on a pretty long 

 prominence, which has a doubling of the vagina almost surrounding it, 

 in form of a preputium, so that it can be thrust out almost like a dog's 

 penis, but not near so far. 



The proper vagina is about eight inches long, and pretty wide and 

 smooth. The os tincae is very prominent, hard, small, and scabrous, so 

 that it is not easy to know where the opening is. The cavity of the 

 uterus is small, and at or near the neck it is full of prominences, like 

 as many ora tincae : there are three of them : after which the uterus 

 becomes somewhat wider, and at about three inches from the mouth it 

 opens into the two horns, which are united some way to one another. 

 This last part of the uterus is very rugous, or rather knobby, much the 

 same with the horns : these rugae [cotyledonal processes 1 ] are very soft. 



This animal just struck me to be the same in comparison with a 

 cow, as an ass is with a horse 2 . 



[The Zebu or] East Indian Bull, brought over by Mr. 

 Russell 3 '[Bos Taurus, var. Indicus, minor]. 



Both kidneys were on the right side of the spine, but this was 

 owing to the left being pushed to that side by the stomach : the lowest 

 was just on the right psoas muscle where it makes the brim of the 

 pelvis. The sulcus where the vessels enter and the duets come out, 

 was on the fore-part of the kidney. The superior kidney lay as high 

 up as the liver, had its sulcus turned towards the spine, and great 

 vessels. Its duct entered the left side of the bladder. 



The stomach has four cavities. The duodenum passes to the right 

 side of the abdomen, and then down that side attached to the first 

 descending turns of the colon ; in its course it is somewhat serpentine : 

 it then crosses the spine to the left side, as it were winding and sweeping 



1 [See Hunt. Prep. No. 2756.] 



2 [In the more advanced position of the horns and more slender proportion of the 

 limbs, the Bison approaches nearer to the Antelopes than do the other Bovines.] 



3 [Probably Dr. Patrick Eussell, author of a ' History of Indian Serpents,' and 

 of a 'History of Aleppo,' in the 'Appendix' to which he writes: — "Having met 

 with nothing more on the internal structure of the Jerboa, than what is given by 

 Gmelm from M. Buffon (Nat. History, torn, xiii.), I applied to my worthy friend 

 Mr. John Hunter, who very obligingly favoured me with the following circumstances 

 from his Adversar/a," &c. This is one of several accessory testimonies to the authen- 

 ticity of the ' Notes ' the copies of which are here printed.] 



