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PEOFESSOE OWEN ON THE ECHIDNA HYSTEIX. 
PLATE XLI. 
Fig. 1. Female organs of Echidna Eystrix ; letters explained in the text. 
Fig. 2. Section of uterus : magnified ; ditto. 
Fig. 3. Young of Echidna Eystrix: twice nat. size; ditto. 
Fig. 4. Ditto: mouth and end of upper jaw: five times nat. size: — «, nostril; inter- 
narial tubercle ; m, upper lip ; n, lower lip ; Z, tip of tongue. 
Fig. 5. Young of Ornitliorhynchus paradoxus: — a, nostril; b , eye-orifice; c, ear-orifice; 
e, internarial tubercle ; relatively smaller than in fig. 3, as being in progress 
of disappearance in a more advanced young one. 
