140 Dr Paolo Savi on the Ba^ or Bladaer occasionally 
d cette epoqueH '' — La Cepede et Cuvier, Menagerie du Museum^ 
Art. Chameau^ p. 2. But it is found solely in the dromedary, 
and only among the males; and they exhibit it only during the rut- 
ting season, that is, in February and March. One of the most 
remarkable facts in .the history of the camel, is, as we now know, 
the peculiar, and, if I may say, infuriated, state in which they 
are found at that season. They then eat very little, and con- 
sequently have little food in their immense paunches, which at 
other times are so distended ; their belly is smaller, and more dis- 
tant from the ground ; they have as it were the paunch retract- 
ed, yaucia rltirata as the camel drivers say. The discharge 
from the occipital gland ^ is more copious, so that the hair of 
the inferior part of the neck is soiled with it. The animal be- 
comes thin, and ruminates more slowly, often moving the jaws 
on each other without having any thing between the teeth, by 
which a sort of disagreeable and sharp grinding is produced. 
They void their urine slowly, and receive the stream on their 
tail, with which they afterwards sprinkle their backs. They 
become restless, and frequently bestow bites and kicks on their 
companions, and occasionally on their keepers ; and, lastly, they 
project from the sides of their mouth, a membranous body of 
a deep flesh-colour, which they generally inflate like a bladder. 
Among the different authors who mention this fact, some, as 
we have seen, assert that two are observed at the same time, 
one on each side of the mouth ; but this is not true. The dro- 
medaries do not, and cannot, project more than a single bladder 
at any one time. The sight of a female, the very odour of her, 
the presence of another male in heat, are sufficient to produce 
the phenomenon of the bladder. At first a deep rattling *h is 
heard, and then from one side, now from another side, of the 
mouth, is projected a red membrane, with variously ramified 
vessels, full of air, and sometimes much distended, but which is 
again quickly emptied, and reduced to a membranous body, 
* This is a conglomerate gland of a reniform shape, about two inches long and 
three broad. It lies in the thickness of the skin, so that the rounded part points 
to the base of the neck, and its margin to the bead. The lobules which compose 
it have each an excretory duct, which opens directly on the surface of the skin, 
among the hairs, without uniting with the ducts of the adjacent lobules. 
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