enters the intestine, which it does 24 inches from the pylorus, at the
second bend of the duodenum. The intestines are thick, as in the
Cats; and there are no permanent folds in any part of the mucous
membrane of the alimentary tract. The cecum is situated, as in the
-  Felide generally, in about the centre of the abdomen, on the inferior
surface of the diagonal portion of the intestine, which runs to the left
hypochondriac region, and then, after, in Arctictis, dilating slightly at


Fig. 2.
Portion of the colon of the Binturong, showing the small cecum (c), and the
dilatation at the angle of the colon, which is situated in the left hypochondrium.
the angle, goes straight backwards to the rectum. It is very much
like that in the Herons, being of considerably less diameter than the


156 THE ANATOMY OF THE BINTURONG.
gut itself; the colon and small intestine are of nearly equal diameter
and uniformly cylindrical. The omentum only covered the intestines
to a small extent, not going more than half down the abdomen,

The liver presents all the known lobes; and the left lateral, right
central, and right lateral are large. The lateral fissures extend deeply
into the organ. The right central lobe is considerably cut up; the
fissure of the gall-bladder is deep; and a small supplementary lobule
covers the fundus of that viscus on its abdominal surface. The left
central lobe is much more conspicuous on the diaphragmatic than on
the abdominal surface. The caudate lobe is larger than usual, and
quadrangular, presenting the renal fossa well developed, and being
perforated by the vena cava inferior. The Spigelian lobe is elongate-
oval, pointed at its free end, and it does not reach as far as the left


Fig. 3.
