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Show 1873.] ANATOMY OF THE BINTURONG. 197 V-shaped patterns, with the concavities directed forwards ; they are also somewhat further apart than those in front, and have one or two rows of mammillated projections in the spaces thus left. The back part of the palate is not ridged ; and the uvula is represented by two slight projections, one on each side of the middle line, with a very shallow notch between them. The tongue is 3 inches long from the tip to the posterior of the circumvallate papillae ; its sides are nearly straight and parallel, converging slightly in front; at its base the breadth is 1 inch, and in front it decreases to £ inch. The mucous membrane covering its lower surface and the floor of the mouth is smooth ; and the superior edge of the frenum linguae is 1| inch from the tip, which latter is simply rounded. The mucous membrane of the superior surface, which is thickly set with papillae, extends up to and slightly over the margins of the tongue in its anterior part, forming a thin-edged fringe all along the border. The anterior half of the superior surface is covered with easily visible, hispid, feline, retroverted papillae, particularly large at the centre, diminishing in size laterally and forwards, where, at the extreme margin, some fungiformes are mixed up with them. In the back part of the tongue the papillae fungiformes are sparsely scattered among the diminished filiformes ; and the papillae circumvallatae, nine in number and not equal in size, form the usual V, four on each side, with one median and posterior. Between these and the epiglottis the mucous membrane is soft and covered sparsely with thin cylindrical papillae, some of which reach \ inch in length ; these are most uniform in diameter from end to end near the middle line, and towards the sides they become shorter and broader at their bases, till they blend with and become un-distinguishable from the filiformes. N o ossified lytta could be found. The parotid is slightly the largest of the submaxillary glands ; it is irregularly shaped and thin at its edges, where it is interpolated between the muscles. The submaxillary gland is egg-shaped, and about | inch in average diameter; its duct runs far forwards on the floor of the mouth, opening within ^ inch of that of the opposite side, upon the symphysis of the jaw and closely bound to it, just behind the canine teeth and half an inch behind the incisors. The sublingual gland is elongate and nearly as large as the submaxillary. The stomach has a very peculiar shape, being elongated longitudinally, and consisting of a longitudinal cylindrical portion running backwards, and, after an abrupt bend, returning chestwards, the parallel tubes thus formed being closely approximate. By this arrangement, notwithstanding the considerable length of the lesser curvature, the cardiac and pyloric orifices are not far from one another ; and they would be nearer were it not for the fact that the second or returning portion of the tube is a little shorter than the first. The cardiac portion of this stomach-tube has a diameter in the undistended organ of 1 inch, which gradually reduces to f inch near the pylorus. A globose cardiac cul-de-sac throws the oesophageal opening quite to the right of that portion of the organ, and so brings it into contact with the commencing duodenum, which, before its first flexure, is a direct continuation forwards (chestwards) of the second |