Identifier: annalsmagazineof8171916lond (find matches)
Title: The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology
Year: 1840 (1840s)
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Subjects: Natural history Zoology Botany Geology
Publisher: London, Taylor and Francis, Ltd
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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n of thesepouches is quite difficult to understand or explain ....There were no contents to be seen and no large glandscould be detected. It is, however, possible that the sur-rounding walls contain small glands, the secretion of whichis stored up in the pouch. From this it appears that hedid not consider these pouches as the homologues of thetrue anal glands, but as secondary reservoirs for secretionemitted, presumably, by the walls of the anal sac *. Further testimony of the existence of anal glands inCryptoprocta and of the ofiiensiveness of their secretion issupplied by two independent sources. Telfair, as quoted by * Owing probably to an oversight, neither of Lounbergs figures of theanal sac shows the anus, although, both in the text of his paper and inthe legvnd of the plate, tig. 2 is stated to represent the circumanalpouch more open, so that the constricted anus can be seen, as well asthe openings into the subfrenal pouch (saccular diverticula). Characters oj Crjptoprocta. 421
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A. Lateral view of glans penis protruded from prepuce (j:??-.), its dorsal side uppermost, cl, smooth clavate portion ; a., anterior, andp., posterior portion of Sj icular thickening. B. Inferior view of glans penis with preputial sheath (pr.) cut down the middle line and turned aside, o., orifice of urethra; otherlettering as in A; the two flaps of the anterior thickenino- (a)almost closed. ° C. Portion of gians penis showing the two flaps of the anterior part of the spicular thickening (ct) spread open. D. Dorsal view of glans penis ; lettering as in A. E. Two of the spicnles enlarged. F. Anal and genital area of young female, adapted from Lonnbergs flgures and descriptions, cl, clitoris protruding from vulva (i\) •t., hairy swelling in front of anal pouch (as.), contaiuiu- theanus (a.) and the pair of diverticula (d.). ° (All I nat. size, except fig. E.) 422 Mr. R. I. Pocock on some of the External Gray, says that the Fossa has an anal pouch, and whenviolently enraged emits a m

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