. The structure and classification of birds . Pig. ■ Syhinx op Male Tetrao tetrix.(Afteb Gaeeob.) Pboni View. box of the male ducks, and be thus another of those manyunexpected resemblances between the two groups. The Cracidee (fig. 148) generally possess the intrinsic mus-cles, which are, however, short, as in the other Galli. Thesyrinx itself has no salient characters by which it may bedistinguished from the Alectoropodes. Gaeeod has also described and figured (fig. 150) thesyrinx of the megapode Megacephalon maleo. It is rather On the Anatomy of the Maleo, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 629. GALLl
. The structure and classification of birds . Pig. ■ Syhinx op Male Tetrao tetrix.(Afteb Gaeeob.) Pboni View. box of the male ducks, and be thus another of those manyunexpected resemblances between the two groups. The Cracidee (fig. 148) generally possess the intrinsic mus-cles, which are, however, short, as in the other Galli. Thesyrinx itself has no salient characters by which it may bedistinguished from the Alectoropodes. Gaeeod has also described and figured (fig. 150) thesyrinx of the megapode Megacephalon maleo. It is rather On the Anatomy of the Maleo, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 629. GALLl 297 peculiar in form, but has a pair of intrinsic muscles, whichreach the first bronchial semi-ring ; in this point the syrinxis more primitive than that of other Fig. 148.—Syrinx of Ahurria carunculata. Fbont View. (After Gareod.) Fig. 149.—Syrinx of Same. BackView. (After Garrod.) The skull in gallinaceous birds is in many respectsremarkably^duck-like. The basipterygoid processes—a little.
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