396 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. [Vov. XXXIX. 
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terior cardinal, the characteristics of one of Hochstetter’s, and 
in the two large symmetrical hepatic veins, those of one of 
Joseph’s, although, upon the whole, it is strikingly different 
from both. 

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