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Show 1878.] MR. GARROD ON NYCTEREUTES PROCYONIDES. 375 Small intestine Large intestine Caecum 2, half-grown. 4-25 feet, 6 inches. 1 25 inches. 2, a month old. 5*75 feet. 8 inches. 1*5 inches. 2, a month old. 7-3 feet. 8 inches. 2 inches. There is evidently not much constancy in the length of the viscera, even in specimens of the same age and sex. Caecum of Nyctereutes procyonides. The liver differs from that of Lycaon pictus and other Canidae in the great size of the Spigelian lobe. In this the accessory lobule, referred to above, is enlarged to form part of the lobe itself, which is, by its presence in a semi-independent condition, rendered bifid apically. In the depth of the cystic fissure, and all other respects, it is quite caniform. The lungs are not peculiar, the fissure between the left upper and middle lobes only being less developed than in many of its allies. The azygos lobe is present on the right lung. The prostate is well developed; Cowper's glands are absent, as are the vesiculee seminales. The os penis is three inches in length, straight, and deeply grooved inferiorly to transmit the urethra. The glans penis is bluntly conical, the urethra opening terminally, much as in the American Cervidae. In Nyctereutes procyonides the brain is perfectly caniform. The posterior limb of the third convolution is bifurcate, the bifurcating sulcus not being lengthy, going upwards and forward with- |