. Annals of the Carnegie Museum. Carnegie Museum; Carnegie Museum of Natural History; Natural history. 62 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. Iliinaiitopiis, with its ])elvic limb of twenty-nine centimeters in length, has a tlljula that descends but one fourth the distance do\\'n the til)ial shaft. 'V\\(t patella in Nuiiicnius is, com])aratively, very small, and of an odd, irregular shai)e. Oyster-catchers have this sesamoid only repre-. Fk;. 23. Parts of Rh;ht Pelvic Limk of Numenius Loncurostris, Natural size, till, anterior view of the tarso-metatarsus ; tin', a view of the surface of its prox-
. Annals of the Carnegie Museum. Carnegie Museum; Carnegie Museum of Natural History; Natural history. 62 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. Iliinaiitopiis, with its ])elvic limb of twenty-nine centimeters in length, has a tlljula that descends but one fourth the distance do\\'n the til)ial shaft. 'V\\(t patella in Nuiiicnius is, com])aratively, very small, and of an odd, irregular shai)e. Oyster-catchers have this sesamoid only repre-. Fk;. 23. Parts of Rh;ht Pelvic Limk of Numenius Loncurostris, Natural size, till, anterior view of the tarso-metatarsus ; tin', a view of the surface of its prox- imal extremity at right angles to the shaft ; ///, the hyjiotarsus ; tin", a view of the surfaces of the distal extremity of tarso-metatarsus at right angles to the shaft, showing the trochlea for the podal digits ; T, upper extremity of the tibia ; ']'\ view of its proximal surface at right angles to the shatt ; /% anterior aspect of the femur. sented in a diminutive cartilaginous nodule, and it is absent in other shore-birds. It is small in Avocets and Willets. The tarso-iiictatarsus of iVii/iicnii/s is but a little over a centimeter shorter than its tibio-tarsus. Upon the superior surface of its jjroxi- mal extremity the articular facets for the tibial condyles are deeply. 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 Carnegie Museum; Carnegie Museum of Natural History. [Pittsburgh] : Published by authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute
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