OF THE RATEL AND THE WOLVERENE. 



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Text-figure 17. 



B 



A. Anal area of Mellivora $ , with the root of the tail above, showing the 



closed orifice of the anal sack. 



B. |The same partly dissected to show tbe anal glands, a.s., anal sack 



spread open with a bristle passed through the duct of the anal gland 

 and emerging at the side of the anus; a.g., anal gla)ids, on the right 

 side entire, on tbe left side opened to show the reservoir and the 

 bristle; sc., scrotum. 



S'^The penis. — In both the genera the prepuce, as in all Mustelidae, 

 is situated far in advance of the scrotum, and the penis is pro- 

 vided with a long stout haculum. In Mellivora the baculum * 



This bone was described by Gilbert (Morph. Jahrb. xviii. p. 817, 1892). 

 I redescribed and figured it in 1918 (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) i, p. 311, figs. i~m 

 p. 309), The baculum of Giilo was figured and described by Pohl (Jena ZBitschr. 

 xlv. p. 385, 1909). 



