KOBTJS ELLIPSIPRYMNUS.
pointed, internally coated with long soft hair disposed in longitudinal stria,
which are divided from each other hy intervening naked spaces, externally
thickly coated with close and short rigid hair. The hair generally is coarse and
wiry, that which covers the chaffron, the lips, the outer surface of the ears, the
anterior extremities and the hinder ones below the houghs, short and dense,
that elsewhere long and shaggy ; on the anterior parts of the body the hair is
longer than on the hinder parts, and on the neck longest. On the middle of
the hack about a foot behind the shoulders, a small whorl exists, and in front
of that all the hairs of the back are directed forwards, while those behind extend
backwards. Tail cylindrical and tapered, tip tufted with long hair, elsewhere
the covering is short and dense. Groins nearly bare, no inguinal pores,
scrotum densely covered with short white hair, no unguinal sinuses nor suborbital
glands. Eye-balls full ; the expression of the eyes fierce, and indicative
of ferocity and determination.
Horns placed upon the frontal crest over the posterior angles of the eyes ;
the first half of each extends slightly backward and much outwards, the next
half forwards and inwards with a uniform curvature, the concavity of which
is in front ; in form they are somewhat cylindrical, the first or basal half being
marked with elevated rings, varying in number from twelve to twenty-three,
and extending more or less upon the last half ; the rings do not appear in
general to be complete, or at least equally distinct upon the outer side of the
horns, apparently from being rubbed down by friction ; the extreme or distal
portion of each horn smooth. Between the annuli the horns are marked with
deep and regular stria, which observe a longitudinal direction.
V is c e r a .— The stomach consists of four pouches : the first is very large
and nearly oval, the second, third, and fourth are comparatively small ; the
communication between the first and second is very small, between the second
and third considerably larger. The first pouch especially adjoining the entrance
of æsophagus is lined with numerous slender, but firm and pointed
papilla, each about two lines in length ; the second stomach is very muscular
and of a roundish form, internally furnished with loose membranous
folds, each of. which is edged with fine hard minute papilla ; the third is
thinner than the second, and like it is furnished internally with loose membranous
folds, but without papilla. Cæcum smooth internally, and not sacculated.
The stomach from the entrance of the æsophagus to its lower edge
two feet in length, the greatest breadth of the first pouch 18 inches. Small
intestines 60 feet long; large intestines 20; cæcum 15 inches. Spleen about
a foot in length, firmly attached to the stomach, and deeply emarginate
on the lower edge. Liver massive, broader than deep, and inferiorly partially