168 Mr. Home’s Account of the 
the situation of the ovaria ; and, in a third, an appearance like 
both testicles and ovaria was met with, close together, in the 
situation of the ovaria. He also gives the dissection of an her- 
maphrodite ass; in which there were substances resembling 
both testicles and ovaria in the abdomen. 
Mr. Hunter never met with an instance of this kind in 
the dog ; and I have not found one in any record which I have 
examined. I shall therefore state the following history of a 
case which has fallen under my own observation, as it proves, 
that a mixture of the generative organs sometimes occurs, in a 
species of animal in which it had not been before met with ; 
and, as the dog is more domesticated than almost any other 
quadruped, the occurrence must be rare indeed, otherwise it 
could not have escaped notice. 
A favourite dog of Lord Bessborough's, which had lived in the 
family for many years, was observed to have no teats, and never 
to have been in heat, although, to appearance, a perfectly formed 
bitch in all other respects : those circumstances being made 
known to Sir Joseph Banks, he requested, that when the ani- 
mal died, it might be sent to him. This happened last summer; 
and I had an opportunity of examining the organs of genera- 
tion, which exhibited the following appearances. As they are 
represented in the annexed drawing, (Tab. IV.) it will be less 
necessary to be very minute in my description. 
There was not the smallest appearance of teats on the skin 
of the belly; so that, in this particular, it differed both from the 
male and female ; nor was there the least trace of any thing 
like the gland of the breast, under the skin. The clitoris was 
very large, being three-quarters of an inch long, and half an 
inch broad ; the orifice of the meatus urinarius was unusually 
