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Mr, Home’s Description oj the Anatomy 
Plate X. 
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A figure of the Ornithorhynchus Hystrix, (on a scale of half 
an inch to an inch,) to show its general appearance, but more 
particularly its cuticular bill. 
Plate XI. 
Fig. i. A view of the bill and throat, laid open, to show the 
tongue and palate. 
! a . The tongue in its natural situation. 
b. The cuticular teeth upon the tongue. 
r. The cuticular teeth upon the palate. 
d, The bifid epiglottis immediately above the glottis. 
e. The valvular projection at the beginning of the oesophagus. 
Fig. 3, A section of the nose and skull, to show the pecu- 
liarities of the organ of smell, and the shape of the cavity of 
the skull, in which the bony falx met with in the paradoxus is 
wanting, 
a. The cavity of the skull. 
b. The peculiar structure of bone through which the branches - 
of the olfactory nerve pass, after leaving the cavity of the 
skull, 
c. The turbinated bone, or what corresponds to it. 
d . The septum of the nose. 
e. The slit through the septum, 
f. The posterior nostrils. 
Fig. 3. The appearance of cuticular papillae on the internal 
