. On the anatomy of vertebrates. Vertebrates; Anatomy, Comparative; 1866. FEMALE ORGANS OF REPTILES. 585 In scaled Reptiles there is a clitoris or some representative trace of the intromittent orean of the other sex. In Ophidia the ovaries, like the testes, are long, slender, and disposed one, usually the right, in advance of the other, and the ovisacs are developed for impregnation, in a single longitudinal series in most species. The ovaries are connected with the begin- ning of the oviducts by a broad fold of peritoneum. Each oviduct commences by an expanded ostium, with a wide fissure, fig
. On the anatomy of vertebrates. Vertebrates; Anatomy, Comparative; 1866. FEMALE ORGANS OF REPTILES. 585 In scaled Reptiles there is a clitoris or some representative trace of the intromittent orean of the other sex. In Ophidia the ovaries, like the testes, are long, slender, and disposed one, usually the right, in advance of the other, and the ovisacs are developed for impregnation, in a single longitudinal series in most species. The ovaries are connected with the begin- ning of the oviducts by a broad fold of peritoneum. Each oviduct commences by an expanded ostium, with a wide fissure, fig. 396, a ; its tunics, at first delicate and transjJarent, increase in thickness as the tube contracts : here its course is slightly wavy, but it soon becomes straight, and, in the viviparous Serpents, expanded, ib. h : 394 395. Ovidiirts aiiQ uteri, SalamaiKlar. 0\-i(Tucts and utori, Fr in the Rattlesnake the lining membrane of the oviduct, prior to the expansion, is disposed in minute parallel longitudinal rugte. The correspondence of the ostia of the oviducts, a, with the ovaries in jjosition renders the left shorter than the right, and in vivijDarous Serpents it usually contains fewer ova or young, as in fig. 396. The cloacal tei'minations of the oviducts are in a semilunar fissure, behind the orifice of the rectum. In the Lacertians the ovaria usually manifest a slight want of symmetry in position, the right being a little more advanced than. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Owen, Richard, 1804-1892; Cornell University. College of Veterinary Medicine. Flower-Sprecher Veterinary Library. fmo. London, Longmans, Green
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