PHASCOGALE PENICILLATA. 269 



The oesophagus as it passes down the thorax, especially near the 

 diaphragm, has a broad thin mesooesophagus. The stomach is pretty 

 globular: the oesophagus enters about its middle. The duodenum 

 passes out on the right, being attached to the common mesentery at 

 the very beginning ; it passes down loosely on the right, and is con- 

 tinued into the jejunum without any interruption of attachment, and 

 this is continued into ileum, colon, and so on to the rectum, without 

 any distinction, being one continued gut, and on one continued mesen- 

 tery : however, we may suppose where the jejunum begins by there 

 being a slight doubling of this membrane. The whole gut is very 

 short, not quite three times the length of the body and head of the 

 animal : they appear to be more like the viscera of a lizard. There are 

 eight nipples placed between the thighs nearly in a circle ; they have 

 rather a loose skin, making a ridge round them, but I think hardly 

 sufficient to make a pouch ; however, it is probable this may increase 

 at the time of uterine gestation, because they have the two [marsupial] 

 bones. 



The liver has four lobes with the lobulus Spigelii, which is very small. 

 The left lobe, as also the next, or middle one, are the largest ; the third 

 is the next in ske, and the fourth, or right, is the smallest, having two long 

 processes. The gall-bladder is in the fissure of the middle lobe, where I 

 imagine the umbilical vein entered, although I could not find it. The two 

 large lobes are attached by a number of long adhesions to the diaphragm ; 

 but whether natural or diseased I cannot say. The pancreas is very 

 thin, has several branches in the beginning of the mesentery on the 

 right, and one process goes to the left in the attachment of the stomach 

 to the mesentery on the left, forming a kind of epiploon. The epiploon 

 is a thin membrane, attached forwards and to the right, to the stomach, 

 pylorus, and duodenum ; backwards to the root of the mesentery ; and 

 towards the left to the stomach again, being continued into itself, in 

 which is the spleen. The spleen is so small that at first I was not cer- 

 tain it was one. The kidneys are conglobate. 



The anus and vagina have but one opening; the vagina is long, 

 which is, I believe, common to the bladder and uterus its whole 

 length; for I believe the opening of the urethra is as high as the 

 os tinea?. There are two horns to the uterus, but whether they 

 arise from one common uterus, or whether there be two ora tincae, I 

 am not certain. The urinary bladder is pretty high up, and is pen- 

 dulous. 



The tongue is not globose at its base: the epiglottis is continued 

 round to the tips of the arytenoid cartilages ; the whole being like the 

 mouth of a tube cut slantingly. The lungs have two lobes on the right 



