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Show 88 MESSRS. WATSON AND YOUNG ON THE [Jan. 14, vertical fissure, which indicates as it were, a tendency towards the more complete subdivision of the right lung. In respect of the number of pulmonic lobes H. crocuta differs from both the other species of Hycena, in each of which the right lung possesses four and the left three. Dr. Murie mentions the presence of two marginal clefts in the upper lobe of the right lung of 77. brunnea, which would Fig. 4. Lungs of Hycvna crocuta. distended and seen from behind R mgh\lZ^he ,gareS )• 2'!' *'k and fi indicate the «P™*> lobes, the Utter Reu™ bf"lg ftc.ed?n Ow so-called azygos lobe.P L. Left lung; the figures 1, 2, and 3 indicate its component lobes. appear to indicate an approach to the arrangement described above iff Cr°Za- At t]?e L Same time' the subdivision described by £}« ?S? \Gr *?%* °?G "! the f0mer does not obtai» » the latter species. Meckel1 states that in II. crocuta the lungs present 1 Op. cit. vol. x. p. 492. |