The infundibulum of the hen's oviduct was examined morphologically in connection with the action of engulfing the ovulated ovum. It was a funnel-shaped, thin-walled structure. Its abdominal ostium was edged by a specialized structure named the fimbrial lip. It was well-defined and had an enlarged wall 1.5-2.0 mm thick, consisting of a double-layered mucosa. In the ostium, the infundibular mucosa turned over the free margin of the fimbrial lip to the parietal side and merged into the serosa. The mucosa of the fimbrial lip and its vicinity was thrown into low, longitudinal folds lined by ciliated epithelial cells only. Nearing to the neck region, mucous folds increased in height and nonciliated cells began to appear. The musculature of the infundibulum looked poorly developed, although its arrangement was characteristic. The fimbrial lip contained a few muscle bundles running parallel or obliquely to the long axis of the infundibulum, but no circular musculature was seen. The infundibular wall below the level of the fimbrial lip had a considerable amount of circular muscle fibers arranged in sheet-like bundles. The infundibulum was abundantly supplied by blood vessels that originated in the ovarian artery. The fimbrial lip had a particularly dense network of capillaries and seemed to be furnished well with lymph vessels. The infundibulum was richly innervated by nerve bundles deriving from the ovarian plexus. On the bais of these structural findings of the infundibulum, discussions were held on the mechanism by which the ovulated ovum was engulfed by the oviduct through the infundibulum from a morphological point of view.