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thin edge ; the right lateral is subcylindrical and truncate below. 

 The gall-bladder is large, and placed between the upper central and 

 right lateral lobes of the liver. The pancreas is of loose texture, 

 transversely elongated, flattened and pointed, obliquely truncate at 

 one end, angular and pointed at the other ; coiled up imbedded in 

 a sac on the outer surface of the truncate extremity, was a small 

 slender worm. 



The omentum is thin and membranous, with no fat ; the mesen- 

 tery is membranous and transparent, the vessels conspicuous, and 

 the glands large, brown, and flattened. 



The stomach is simple, 4 inches in length, the greatest breadth 

 3 inches ; coats muscular, especially at the pyloric extremity, where 

 the muscle is thickened so as almost to form a fleshy gizzard. The 

 mucous membrane is loosely corrugated at the cardiac end, and 

 densely covered with papillae at the pyloric extremity. There is a 

 central pyriform tubercle suspended from the lesser curvature, pro- 

 jecting into the cavity of the stomach. 



Between the thickened parts of the stomach, imbedded in the 

 coats on the greater curvature, and midway between the cardia and 

 pyloris, is a small sac surrounded by a mass of glands, the use and 

 structure of which is to me unknown. 



The small intestines are 10 feet 10 inches long, and half an inch in 

 circumference ; they are dark-coloured and vascular. 



The caecum is 1\ inches in length and 1 inch in circumference. 

 The large intestines are 10 inches long and 1-^ inch in circumference. 



The kidneys are ovoid, large, and smooth ; the pelvis ending in a 

 single follicle or sac ; the ureters end near the neck of the small 

 pear-shaped bladder. 



The ovaries are \ inch long, small, yellow, ovoid, and spotted, and 

 situated at the inner side of the horns of the uterus. 



The uterus is divided above into two horns, which are curved in- 

 wards and downwards ; each comu is 1 inch in length ; body of 

 uterus inch long and subcylindrical. Fallopian tubes 2 inches in 

 length. Vagina long and muscular. Anus immediately behind 

 vulva at root of tail ; there is a transverse linear opening leading 

 to a cul de sac ^ inch deep, studded with conical papillae, and which 

 is the seat of the peculiar odour of the Manis, which is alliaceous. 



A second Entozoon was found in the muscles of the lumbar region. 



4. List of the First Collection of Birds made by Mr. 

 Louis Fraser at Pallatanga, Ecuador, with Notes 

 and Descriptions of New Species. By Philip Lutley 

 Sclater. 



(Aves, PI. CLIV.) 



Mr. Fraser passed part of the month of August, the whole of Sep- 

 tember and October, and part of November last year at Pallatanga, 

 a pueblo lying to the S.E. of Riobamba on the Pacific slope of the 



