APPENDIX. 543 



There is a considerable degree of uniformity in 

 the liver of this tribe of animals. In shape it 

 nearly resembles the human, but is not so thick 

 at the base, nor so sharp at the lower edge, and is 

 probably not so firm in its texture. The right 

 lobe is the largest and thickest, its falciform liga- 

 ment broad, and there is a large fissure between 

 the two lobes, in which the round ligament passes. 

 The liver towards the left is very much attached 

 to the stomach, the little epiploon being a thick 

 substance. There is no gall-bladder : the hepatic 

 duct is large, and enters the duodenum about 

 seven inches beyond the pylorus. 



The pancreas is a very long, flat body, having 

 its left end attached to the right side of the first 

 cavity of the stomach : it passes across the spine 

 at the root of the mesentery, and near to the 

 pylorus joins the hollow curve of the duodenum 

 along Avhich it is continued, and adheres to that 

 intestine, its duct entering that of the liver near 

 the termination in the gut. 



Although this tribe cannot be said to ruminate, 

 3^et in the number of stomachs they come nearest 

 to that order ; but here I suspect that the order of 

 digestion is in some degree inverted. In both 

 the ruminants, and in this tribe, I think it must 

 be allowed that the first stomach is a reservoir. 

 In the ruminants the precise use of the second 

 and third stomachs is perhaps not known ; but di- 

 gestion is certainly carried on in the fourth; 

 while in this tribe, I imagine, digestion is per- 



