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secreting this liquor are scattered granular specks, from which no ducts are 

 traceable to the pores which emit it. 



No similar pores exist in either the preceding species, or in that which 

 will be subsequently described ; and yet both of them were ordinarily f(stid 

 whilst the present one was not so.* Doubtless the secretion exists in all, 

 though the pores which carry it off are no more visible to the eye in these 

 species than are the ducts in the other. 



The distinctive secreting apparatus of the genus, and which is dispos- 

 ed on either side of the whole length of the male and female organs of 

 generation, has the same form in all three species, and the same secretion. 

 This organ consists of two almond-shaped glands, one of which is laid edge- 

 wise along either side of the membrum virile or of the rima sexualis. These 

 glands are covered on the outer side with fur, but are nude on the inner 

 side ; and, the skin being lax and subvalvular, when closed they conceal 

 the sheath of the penis or the lips of the vulva — when opened, exhibit a 

 shallow longitudinal fossa between the glands and those parts — but so 

 shallow that both are laid bare upon a nearly level and wholly nude surface. 



Longitudinally the glands are clearly defined by a slight constriction 

 of the skin, especially on their anal extremity, between which and the 

 opening of the anus there is a clear space of an inch, covered with fur like 

 the proximate parts, and forming a simple peroneum, from which, in the 

 male, the testes are suspended in a small hairy scrotum. If you press 

 these glands, with the skin on, they yield a clear thick substance like 

 congealed honey, in small globular particles, issuing from numberless small 

 and similar pores disposed all over the surface of the glands. Pressure, 

 when the skin is removed, causes the protrusion of the same substance, in 



* This may be explained by the constant state of irritation in which the two former 

 species lived during the short time 1 had them alive, whilst the latter, from having been taken 

 young and reared in confinement, was ordinarily tranquil. 



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