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between the fore legs, and two between the hind ones. There is no 

 scrotum in the male, not the least vestige of one. 



The tongue is long, pretty thick, does not become thinner and 

 thinner, or narrower to a point. The velum palati is broad ; its outer 

 edge rests on the root of the tongue just before the epiglottis, so that 

 the epiglottis, as it were, projects up behind this membrane into the 

 nose, which makes me suspect that they must always breathe by the 

 nose, and even make a noise through this passage. The epiglottis is 

 not so distinct a part as iu many animals ; for both the glottis and epi- 

 glottis make a pretty regular rising, like the opening of a flower, only 

 the anterior part is the highest, and the whole projects up into the 

 posterior nares. That part which may be called epiglottis, or that 

 which makes the anterior half of the glottis, cannot fall so as to cover 

 the other or posterior half ; but this must be brought forwards, which 

 at the same time makes it sink under the anterior half, and then the 

 anterior folds over it. 



The space between the incisor teeth and grinders is not a continua- 

 tion of the plane with the roof of the mouth, forming a ridge some- 

 what similar to a gum, or forming a lateral termination of the roof; 

 but each space forms a cavity which would appear to go up almost into 

 the nose ; the roof of the mouth leading from the incisores back, and 

 becoming very narrow, like a ridge. What can be the use of this ? 



On the inside of the cheeks there is an oblong glandular surface 

 leading backwards in the direction of the mouth covered with a cuticle, 

 having hair upon it 1 . 



The oesophagus does not pass immediately into the stomach ; as soon 

 as it gets through the diaphragm, it enters the stomach about its middle 

 between the great end and pylorus. The stomach is not so oblong as 

 in many other animals, having a large great-end : near the pylorus the 

 stomach grows smaller, and turns upwards, making a pretty quick bend, 

 and terminates in the pylorus. The duodenum seems to be less a con- 

 tinuation of the stomach than common ; it is much larger than what 

 the termination of the stomach is, and projects above the pylorus like a 

 csecum, as in the guinea-pig, and is, at this part, very glandular. From 

 this the duodenum passes to the right as usual, becoming much smaller ; 

 and, as it passes down on the right side, it gets behind, and is attached 



1 [This lines the bony cavity formed as follows : — " The malar bone is a slightly 

 curved plate, twice as deep as it is long, and forms the posterior third of the zygo- 

 matic expansion, the rest being formed by the maxillary, which is unusually and 

 enormously developed. This zygomatic expansion is deeply excavated on the inner 

 side, forming, in the recent animal, a large bony capsule on each side of the mouth." 

 —Catalogue of the Osteology, Mus. Coll. Chir., 4to. 1853, p. 370.] 



