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The pancreas is very thin, lying across the spine as usual, attached 

 to the upper part of the transverse turn of the colon : there is also one 

 in the mesoduodennm, but it is very thin, and separated in many places.. 

 Where the duct enters I cannot tell, but should suppose near the gall- 

 duct, as it is attached to that part. 



The kidneys are conglobate ; the right is the highest and the nearest 

 to the spine, being close to the vena cava and adhering to it ; and the 

 vessels pass behind this adhesion ; and I believe that in most animals 

 the right is nearer than the left. Their vessels make an obtuse angle 

 upwards, being reflected. There is one mammilla. The capsular renales 

 are little oval yellow bodies close to the vena cava. The right lies 

 behind the adhesion of the kidney to that vein, in the angle where the 

 emulgents come off: the left lies in the same angle upon the left side, 

 and not in contact with the kidney, not even near it : they are darker 

 in the centre, and the cortical part is fibrous like the tubular part of the 

 kidney, passing towards a centre. Two large lumbar veins pass into 

 the vena cava just above the entrance of the emulgents. 



The tail begins to turn up at the sixth joint. The xiphoid cartilage 

 is attached to the posterior part of the last bone of the sternum near its 

 extremity ; for the last bone of the sternum is what answers to that 

 cartilage in us ; and where this bone terminates there is a sacculus 

 mucosus. The same in a rabbit. There is a little bifr*of clavicle which 

 is loosely attached at one end to the tubercle of the head of the os 

 humeri ; the other end points towards the sternum, is a little bent, and 

 the concave side is towards the body of the humerus. 



The heart is small, and longer than common, and has two apices. 

 There are two venae cavae superiores, as in a goat ; and two arteries 

 arising from the curvature of the aorta, as in the squirrel. The lung on 

 the right side is divided into three lobes, besides the particular lobe ; on 

 the left side the lung divides into two. The valves of the heart are 

 much as common. 



The thoracic and abdominal viscera of a rabbit and a hare are the 

 same. 



Of the Male Parts 1 . — The testicles are pretty prominent. There is a 

 very large and long epididymis, which begins at the upper end broad and 

 flat : as it passes down it becomes very small, and at the lower end it 

 becomes larger and goes on lower than the testicle, forming almost a 

 distinct body, which turns up upon itself to form the vas deferens. 

 The lower end of this part is firmly attached to the lower part of the 

 tunica vaginalis. The tunica vaginalis cominunicates with the abdomen 



[Hunt. Preps. Nos. 2489, 2490.] 



