. On the anatomy of vertebrates [electronic resource] . structure from the wider part of thecaecum, and it is continued, as in the human foetus, directly from 1 In several shot on the hills at Pinang, the stomach contained vegetable matter,but no remains of insects. In confinement plantains constitute the favourite p. 8. ALIMENTARY CANAL OF QUADRUMANA. 431 the end of the wider part, or caecum proper. The large intestinesare about 1 foot 10 inches in length. The colon, moderately dis-tended, is 1 inch 2 lines in diameter at its commencement, andgradually decreases in width. Beyond
. On the anatomy of vertebrates [electronic resource] . structure from the wider part of thecaecum, and it is continued, as in the human foetus, directly from 1 In several shot on the hills at Pinang, the stomach contained vegetable matter,but no remains of insects. In confinement plantains constitute the favourite p. 8. ALIMENTARY CANAL OF QUADRUMANA. 431 the end of the wider part, or caecum proper. The large intestinesare about 1 foot 10 inches in length. The colon, moderately dis-tended, is 1 inch 2 lines in diameter at its commencement, andgradually decreases in width. Beyond the first enlargements it isnot sacculated, but is slightly puckered on a longitudinal band,which may be traced a few inches from the beginning of the gut,where two or three pouch-like protrusions appear on ileo-colic aperture is slit-shaped, bounded by two low ridges,that next the caecum being most This type of caecum is repeated in Stenops javanicus with a longerand narrower i vermiform termination : 2 in Stenops tardigradus. 328 Cecum of Galago Moholi, nat. size. this part is shorter:3 in Tarsius,4 Per o diet icus? Otolicnus,6 andthe Galagos,7 it is wanting, and a moderately long and widecaecum terminates obtusely, withoutcontracting: in Galago calabariensisit is comparatively short :8 in Galagomoholi, with a more efficient form ofmolars for mastication, the caecumis more than twice the length in pro-portion to its calibre, and it is puck-ered by a mesenteriole into five orsix short folds, fig. 327. The cardiacpart of the stomach is large in allLemurines, fig. 328, a: but the py-loric part rarely protrudes to the right of the pylorus, below thebeginning of the gut. The duodenum is rather shorter in true
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