. The myology of the raven (Corvus corax sinuatus.) A guide to the study of the muscular system in birds . , Archiv, p. 261, No. minor. Owen, Cydopcedia, p. to the glut, minim. Owen, Apteryx, p. quartus. Owen, Comp. Anat., ii. p. 100.„ ,, Selenka, p. 140, No. 77. De Man, p. 120, No. iliacus externus medius. Gadow, No. 10. (Bronns Klassen, pp. 140, 141.) JVote.—This synonymy must be taken with some degree ofcaution, for I find it wrong in several instances ; as, for one example,Owen does not call the muscle glutceus quarttis in vol. ii., p. 100,
. The myology of the raven (Corvus corax sinuatus.) A guide to the study of the muscular system in birds . , Archiv, p. 261, No. minor. Owen, Cydopcedia, p. to the glut, minim. Owen, Apteryx, p. quartus. Owen, Comp. Anat., ii. p. 100.„ ,, Selenka, p. 140, No. 77. De Man, p. 120, No. iliacus externus medius. Gadow, No. 10. (Bronns Klassen, pp. 140, 141.) JVote.—This synonymy must be taken with some degree ofcaution, for I find it wrong in several instances ; as, for one example,Owen does not call the muscle glutceus quarttis in vol. ii., p. 100,of his Comp. Anat. of Verts., and Selenka is also misquoted for theg. minimus (see Bronns Klassen, vi. Bd. p. 140).—R. W. S. THE MUSCLES OF THE LOWER EXTREMITY. 167 names of gluUeus quartus and glutceus quintus, in theCassowary ; one of them is absent in most birds [ Verts., vol. ii. pp. 100-101). The two smaller gluteals pull the thigh-bone forwardswhile at the same time they abduct it. The group of gluteal muscles are also powerfully de-veloped in our Geococcyx califoiiiianus. In it the. ^^•^Z Fig. 45.—Aiiterioi aspect of left femur of a Raven, designed to show the muscles that are attached to 46.—The same hone seen from behind ; a, femoral head of the flexor ppAforans digitonmi 2) 47.—The same bone viewed from its inner side. All life-size, by the author, from his own dissections. gluteus primus (Fig. 62 his) constitutes that great andrather complex muscle which makes up the central fleshyportion of the outer aspect of the thigh. It arises by astrong fascia from the summit of the co-ossified neuralspines of the anterior sacral vertebrae, and by carneousfibres from the outer rim and under surface of the 168 THE MYOLOGY OF THE RAVEN. wliorl-like, overarching portion of the ilium behind ;and finally from the contiguous portion of the pelvisover the antitrochanter, between these anterior andposterior origins. In front the muscle consists
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