340 REPTILIA. 



as the kidneys are similar : the yellow bodies and the entrance of the 

 ureters are similar. 



Upon the outer surface at the upper end and inner edge of the kid- 

 neys are placed two oblong bodies that I take to be the ' capsulae 

 renales ; ' they are darker on their exterior surface than internally, and 

 in some places little yellow bodies are to be seen upon them as in the 

 kidney : and on the outer edge there is a very small yellow thread [the 

 oviduct] passing down, which is continued along the broad ligament its 

 whole length towards the anus. This seems to be a duct filled with 

 yellow matter, which we see studded on the surface of the gland. In 

 one given me by Mr. Bailey, which had no oviduct, these bodies were 

 larger at the upper end, terminating below almost in a point. Behind 

 the upper end there is another body, which goes a little higher and 

 seems to be rather lighter in colour ; whether this be a process of 

 the other (whatever the other may be), or epididymis, or capsula 

 renalis, or whether the whole is capsula, nothing but finding them in 

 the copulating season can determine. The duct leading down had 

 nothing in it 1 . 



Of the Female Parts.— There are two oviducts which he on the ante- 

 rior surface of the kidneys, extending the whole length of the kidney. 

 They are attached to the kidney by a thin doubling of the peritoneum, 

 which is about an inch broad ; the course of these is serpentine ; the 

 upper end terminates in the fimbriae ; the other end passes down, and 

 gets upon the fore-part of the rectum, then passes through the coats of 

 that gut obliquely, excepting the internal ; and, when blown into, it 

 terminates in a blind point, forming a protuberance upon the inner sur- 

 face of the rectum ; but the air does not escape by any orifice therein : 

 so in what manner they enter I do not know ; but it must be in this 

 common anus, as it is in birds, and must be, I think, by two orifices. 

 The oviduct was about the bigness of a goose-quill, but was much 

 smaller at the morsus diaboli 2 . There arises from the inner surface of 

 this common anus, the clitoris, which is nearly an inch long, thickest at 

 the root. At its point it is a little hollow, but very protuberant and 

 rough ; at its root it seems to begin from two flat white bodies about a 



1 [I found, in a male crocodile dissected at the Zoological Gardens, the testes 

 narrow and long, situated a little atlantad and stemad of the kidneys. The semen 

 was carried to two pretty large vesiculse, lodged close behind the cloaca, formed in 

 part by a cartilaginous sac ; the openings were at the sides of the cloaca! commence- 

 ment of the groove of the penis.] 



- [There are no fimbriae ; the margins of the slit-like abdominal aperture are 

 entire: the cloacal orifices of the oviducts are demonstrated in the preparation 

 No. 2724, Hunt. Phys. Series: see the description in Phys. Catalogue, vol. iv. 

 p. 147.] 



