. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. ever, con-siderable difference between the pouches in the two the mongooses tiie anus opens near the centre of thepouch, which, apparently in these animals, represents theentire anal disk in the hysenas ; and the margins of thepouch close right over the anus when the pouch is the mongooses, moreover, the orifices of the two analglands open into the ])ouch tolerably near the anus, and notvery far above it and remote from it as in the hysenas. As Murie (Tr. Zt>o1. Soc. vi. p. 505, pi. descr
. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. ever, con-siderable difference between the pouches in the two the mongooses tiie anus opens near the centre of thepouch, which, apparently in these animals, represents theentire anal disk in the hysenas ; and the margins of thepouch close right over the anus when the pouch is the mongooses, moreover, the orifices of the two analglands open into the ])ouch tolerably near the anus, and notvery far above it and remote from it as in the hysenas. As Murie (Tr. Zt>o1. Soc. vi. p. 505, pi. describedin the case of Hyesna brunnea, the anal glands are envelopedin muscular tissue ; but the glands in H. hyaana differ fromthose of that species in the following particulars. Li Hycenabrunnea it apjjcars that the normal anal gland found in alljlj^luroid Carnivores is tripartite. At all events, Murie figuredtiiree closely juxtaposed saccular glands, each with a separatecompartment for storage of the secretion, which makes Characters of the Striped ITyccna cix\Tis. 3. 337. A wmw ^
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