A Report of Pseudohermaphroditism in a Goat

and Mills1 animals having gonads of one sex and the remaining genitalia resemb-ling the other sex are called pseudoherm-aphrodites. If the gonads are testes, Y oung2 classifies the animal as a male pseudohermaphrodite. Crew3 reported hermaphroditism in a number of Toggen-berg goats. The condition we are about to describe was first brought to the owner's attention when the clitoris of this young Toggen-berg goat became very enlarged and pro-truded from the fossa clitoridis into and through the external opening of the vul-va. Instead of protruding from the fossa entirely, the clitoris was kinked and folded like an accordian and thus occu-pied a minimum of space. If it had been straightened out it perhaps would have been several inches long. Along the median line deeply to the skin, a slender muscle ran from the sternal area to the ventral part of the vulva. The urethra opened into the vulva at the usual place, but so did the uterus. In other words no vagina or cervix was present as such. Probably this should be called a urogenital sinus. The passageway continued forward to one inch behind the anterior border of the pubis, where it was joined by both the uterus and the urethra. The body of the uterus was large an