196 INSECTIVORA. 



The liver consists of four lobes : the right lobe, or fourth, is continued 

 across the spine towards the left, and forms the lobulus Spigelii. The 

 ligament and gall-bladder are attached to the second lobe. The ductus 

 communis is obliged to run a considerable way along the broad mesen- 

 tery to the duodenum. 



The pancreas runs from the spleen to the duodenum along the poste- 

 rior attachment of the epiploon : the spleen is much as in a dog. The 

 kidneys are conglobate, the right the highest. The testicles are situated 

 as in the mouse, the hedge-hog, and many other animals : they are 

 capable of being either within the cavity of the abdomen or in a pouch 

 which leads backward by the sides of the anus, they having no project- 

 ing scrotum. The prepuce or opening for the penis is within the verge 

 of the anus ; both make but one external verge or ring, and make a trans- 

 verse slit : this is similar to that of the beaver. The penis in its flaccid 

 state is turned backward, and appears very much like the tongue of a 

 bird : in shape it is very much like the thumb with the nail upon it. 

 The two crura go back on each side of the rectum, and are attached to 

 the ischia, as there is no pubis 1 . They must be retromingent ordinarily ; 

 but, if ever they made water when the penis was erect, it would of 

 course pass forwards. 



I found in the stomach hair, a feather, and little pieces of white 

 substance similar to chewed kernels. 



[The Sumatran Tree-Shrew (Tupaia, Horsfield, Cladobates, 



Cuvier).] 



An Animal like an Opossum in the head, and a Squirrel in the tail 



and feet. 



Teeth. — In the upper jaw it is a good deal like the mole, having three 

 grinders on each side ; one semi-grinder, and two cuspidati close to the 

 grinders and close to each other near the fore-part ; one cuspidatus, and 

 then one tusk, as in the mole, only smaller in proportion to the body : 

 no incisores 2 . In the lower jaw there are three grinders, one cuspidatus 

 close to the grinders, three cuspidati at a small distance forwards, the 

 middle one (the highest) somewhat like a tusk ; and then one tusk longer 

 than in the upper jaw. 



The liver has four lobes, besides the lobulus Spigelii. The gall- 



1 [Hunt. Prep. No. 2511.] 



- [There are no front teeth having the shape of incisors ; but there are two 

 cylindro-conical teeth in each premaxillary, the first the longest, and these are op- 

 posed to six fore-teeth in the lower jaw ; the molar series consists of p ~ = -, m -^.] 



