. The woodpeckers. Woodpeckers. 100 THE WOODPECKERS come from? Does it stretch like a piece of elastic cord ? Or is a part hidden somewhere ? And if so, where is it kept ? These questions are answered by studying the bones of the tongue, for without bones it could not be guided as swiftly and surely as it is. In- deed, all tongues have bones in them, as you will discover by cutting carefully the slices near the root of an ox-tongue; but no other creature has such long and elaborate tongue-bones as some of the woodpeckers. They are the slen- derest and most deli- cate little bony rods, joined e
. The woodpeckers. Woodpeckers. 100 THE WOODPECKERS come from? Does it stretch like a piece of elastic cord ? Or is a part hidden somewhere ? And if so, where is it kept ? These questions are answered by studying the bones of the tongue, for without bones it could not be guided as swiftly and surely as it is. In- deed, all tongues have bones in them, as you will discover by cutting carefully the slices near the root of an ox-tongue; but no other creature has such long and elaborate tongue-bones as some of the woodpeckers. They are the slen- derest and most deli- cate little bony rods, joined end to end, but not really hinged nor needing to be, because they are so elastic. Here are the bones of a flicker's tongue. The little knob at the end, marked a, bore the Tongue-bones of Flicker. (After Lu- homy point of the tongue and directed it; the straight shaft marked 6 was inside the round part of the tongue as it lay within the bird's mouth; but. cas.) a. Cerato-hyals, fused and short. b. Basi-hyal, long, slender. c. Cerato-branchials. d. Epibrancbials. Basi-branchial is 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, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company
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