180 BRUTA. 



nearly as high as the stomach ; it then makes a turn down again and 

 swells into a large straight gut, the rectum. 



The stomach was full of a substance of a fibrous kind like the chewed 

 bark of a tree. The colon was filled with small round faeces, like those 

 of a rat, only somewhat rounder. The epiploon is a very narrow 

 membrane, only attached to the last part of the stomach, as it were, 

 spread upon it, and attached by its edges all around. The spleen is in 

 this membrane, and is an oblong body, an inch long, thicker at one end 

 than at the other. 



The liver is broad and thick, very much like the human ; only the 

 left edge is not so thin, nor does it extend so far to the left. There 

 was no gall-bladder that I could perceive. The kidneys are conglobate, 

 with one mammilla of course. The bladder is a round body when much 

 contracted. The urethra passes along, like the. urethra in she-animals, 

 in a straight direction, and opens into a prepuce, which is in some 

 measure common to the penis and anus, like the opossum's, and then 

 runs along a groove in a small projecting body, which I suppose to be 

 the penis. 



Parts of Generation. — Looking upon the rectum, we observe two bodies 

 like the horns of the uterus in brutes, one passing to each loin, twisting 

 obliquely round the rectum. Pretty near their union, which is on the 

 fore-part of the rectum, behind and a little above the bladder, stand 

 two rounded bodies, which I suppose to be the testicles. The whole of 

 these parts at first view appeared to be female, and these two bodies 

 the ovaria ; although they were too near to what might be called the body 

 of the uterus. The penis is a short flat body enclosed in a prepuce, 

 which is within the verge of the anus. It is not above two-tenths of 

 an inch in length, and terminates in an obtuse point. It has a groove 

 which runs along its under surface, and which makes the point some- 

 what forked. The bones of the pubis are small, pass across the rectum, 

 and are united by a cartilage of some length 1 . 



[The Two-toed Anteater,] Fourmilier of Buffon, vol. x. p. 144. 

 \Myrmecophaga didactyla, Linn.] 



This animal has two fore- claws [on each fore foot]. The stomach is 

 pretty globular, not much projecting at the great end. The duodenum 

 passes to the right, then turns from the right to the left ; in this last 

 part it becomes larger and appears to contract at once into jejunum ; it 

 is attached in this course by a short mesentery; but the mesentery 

 becomes longer, and the gut is thrown into convolutions forming the 



1 [A foetal Ai is preserved, Hunt. Prep. No. 3480.] 



