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have started to have been a ninth leg. About four inches below 
the tail of the second was a vaginal projection, one and a half 
inches long, and covered with hair, that probably was intended 
for an anus. There was no vulva, penis, nor testicles visible on 
either calf. The head of the second was situated on a very 
short *neck that was applied against the posterior portion of the 
sternum of the first. This head was short and presented a very 
peculiar formation. The ears were situated lower than the 
natural, the left one being very small and covered with long 
hair, the opening to the ear proper being just anterior to it. 
The lower jaw was divided up so as to present a very interest- 
i 
ing formation, the incisor teeth were in two separate bones 
(three in each), the molars being on a bone by themselves and 
immovable. 
Unfortunately, this calf was in an advanced state of decom¬ 
position, and as I was very busy at that time, it had to be buried 
without my making a dissection of it. 
What the arrangement of its internal organs were can only 
be a conjecture, but they must of necessity have been very 
complex. 
[ While we thank Dr. Ambler for his communication, and for the photographic 
views accompanying it, we regret that these were not sufficently developed and clear 
to permit of their reproduction.— Editor.] 
UNCOMMON ABDOMINAL OBSTRUCTION. 
By F. P. Williamson, D.V.S., Raleigh, N. C. 
Post-mortem examination on female calf, age 6 months. 
All organs in normal condition, in abomasum was contained 
a cheesy mass measuring 9 inches in length, 4inches in 
breadth, 3 inches in thickness, weighing 31 ounces; just back of 
this mass, completely blocking up the pyloric opening of the 
small intestine, was a quantity of sand an inch in thickness. 
That this effectualiy stopped the passage of food was shown by 
the fact that the 180 feet of intestine back of this was entirely 
-empty. 
