. The bird book. Birds. COMPARING BONES. 69 (called in birds the tibio-tarsus), which runs from knee to ankle, and the tarso-metatarsus (usually called the " tarsus "), which is the part of the leg between the heel and the toe joints, the part we see in life and call the " leg " of the bird. You will not find anything in your own body resembling this, though it really takes the place of the bones in your own foot and instep, and is made up by the welding together of several little bones. All you need to remember is that the name is tarsus and the plural of it is tarsi. The
. The bird book. Birds. COMPARING BONES. 69 (called in birds the tibio-tarsus), which runs from knee to ankle, and the tarso-metatarsus (usually called the " tarsus "), which is the part of the leg between the heel and the toe joints, the part we see in life and call the " leg " of the bird. You will not find anything in your own body resembling this, though it really takes the place of the bones in your own foot and instep, and is made up by the welding together of several little bones. All you need to remember is that the name is tarsus and the plural of it is tarsi. The name is important because it means just that part of the leg between the heel and. Fig. 12. Bones of Wing of Bird and Akm of Man. (By courtesj^ of McClure's Magazine. Copyriglited, 1S9T, by the S. S, McClure Co.) the toes, the exposed, scaly portion that we commonly see in the live bird. It is frequently highly colored, so that books often speak of " tarsi red," or of " yellow ; We will not delay to study the chicken's foot, — except to notice that it has only four toes, — but will take up the wing, with its shoulder, elbow, and wrist joints clearly equivalent to our own, an upper arm-bone and two fore-arm bones very similar though differently modelled at the joints, and two long hand-bones unlike our five in being solidly fastened together at the end. There are three fingers in place of our five, though little nestling birds show traces of the other two fingers. 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 Eckstorm, Fannie Hardy, 1865-1946. Boston, Heath
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