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The spleen is large, and in the dnplicature of the epiploon. The 

 kidneys are conglobate ; the right is about the length of itself higher 

 than the left. The trachea is pretty large ; the lung on the right side 

 is divided into three lobes besides the middle lobe : on the left it is 

 divided into two lobes: there is a small vena cava sinistra, not the 

 continuation of the whole of the left jugular and subclavian. The 

 tongue is one continued body to the tip. The epiglottis is broad, and its 

 edges enclose laterally the arytenoid cartilages. There are two very 

 small [marsupial] bones to the pubis. There are two clavicles. 



The opening of the anus and vagina is the same : the lower part of 

 this opening has a small peak, in which there is a passage leading to 

 the vagina. There are two clitorides. The vagina is very long and 

 small, and appears to be the common vagina through its whole length. 

 The uterus has, or is, two horns, which are not long but pretty wide, 

 excepting at their beginning ; but whether they arise separately from 

 the vagina or from a common uterus I cannot say, as they were too 

 small to be traced into the vagina ; but I suspect they make some turns. 

 I saw two small orifices entering the vagina whereabout I should have 

 called it the neck of the bladder, which is near about where the ureters 

 enter; and they seemed to be retrograde respecting the vagina, but 

 directed towards the bladder. The ovaria are pretty large and flat 

 bodies: the capsula ovarii hardly encloses them. The bladder is 

 pendulous its whole length, and unattached, excepting being united at 

 the pubis by a thin membrane ; therefore the ureters must enter about 

 its neck. 



Of the Teeth.— \ 



"VVha-tapoa Roo \_Phalangista vulpina, Geof. 2 ] . 



This animal is about the size of a racoon, of a dark grey on the 

 back, becoming rather fighter on the sides, which terminates in a rich 

 brown on the belly. Its head is short ; eyes rather prominent ; ears 

 pretty broad, not peaked ; legs rather short ; tail long and fitted for 

 laying hold. Its hair is of two kinds, the ' long' and the ' fur' ; and the 

 long is of the fur kind at the bottom. On the fore-foot there are five 

 toes ; the inner and shortest resembles in a slight degree a thumb ; the 

 fourth toe is the longest. The hind-foot resembles more a hand, or the 

 hind-foot of the monkey, opossum, <fec, the great toe, on which there 



1 [The structure of the female organs of Petaurus may be understood by reference 

 to the preparations Nos. 2734 d and e, and their descriptions, Cat. of the Physiol. 

 Series, vol. iv. p. 151. See also my art. " Marsupialia," torn. cit. p. 816 ; and, for the 

 dentition of Petaurus, ib. p. 264, fig. 88.] 



2 [The skull of this specimen is No. 1854, Hunt. Osteol. Series.] 

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