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. The myology of the raven (Corvus corax sinuatus.) A guide to the study of the muscular system in birds . ually coming tothe middle line, passes under the bony bridge just abovethe condyles in front. Emerging from this, it passesover the front of the ankle-joint, being bound down inthis situation by a firm fascia. It is now slightly 1 A study of the methods of insertion of this muscle throughoutthe Class Aves is a very interesting one, and shows it to be verydifferent in several of the groups. Gadow gives its synonymy asfollows :— 46. M. EXTENSOR DIGITORUM COMMUNIS. M. primus anterior pedem e
. The myology of the raven (Corvus corax sinuatus.) A guide to the study of the muscular system in birds . ually coming tothe middle line, passes under the bony bridge just abovethe condyles in front. Emerging from this, it passesover the front of the ankle-joint, being bound down inthis situation by a firm fascia. It is now slightly 1 A study of the methods of insertion of this muscle throughoutthe Class Aves is a very interesting one, and shows it to be verydifferent in several of the groups. Gadow gives its synonymy asfollows :— 46. M. EXTENSOR DIGITORUM COMMUNIS. M. primus anterior pedem et digitos movens. duodecimus circa tibiam et fibulam. commun des doigts. Vicq dAzyr, p. 282, No. Merrem, p. 161, No. extensor digitorum communis. Wiedemann, p. 100.„ „ „ „ Tiedemann, § 308. ,, „ ,, ,, Quennerstedt, p. 39. „ „ „ „ Neander, p. 23 ; Gadow, No. 32. Watson, p. digitorum longus. Owen, Apteryx, p. 297. „ „ „ De Man, p. 135, No. 27. Lextenseur commun des doigts. Gervais et Alix, p. 33; Alix;p. FIG. 63.—Outer aspect of left pelvic limb of a Raven, show-ing the second layer of muscles. The crurwusand vastus externus are somewhat parted at theirlower moieties, and the biceps drawn a little to therear to show its passage through the tendinousloop. _ Life-size, by the author, from his owndissections. THE MUSCLES OF THE LOWER EXTREMITY. 217 deflected to tlie inner side, and just above the tubercleon the torso-metatarsus for the insertion of the tendonof the tibialis anticus, it passes through a special littlebony arch there found for it. It then passes down theinterno-anterior edge of this bone to the trochlese ofthe basal toe-joints. Here it divides into three smallertendinous slips; these pass respectively over thesuperior aspects of the second, third, and fourth toes,bifurcating as they do so, beyond the basal joints, tobe inserted at the bases of the distal ones. At th
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