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Identifier: myologyofravencoc00shuf (find matches)
Title: The myology of the raven (Corvus corax sinuatus.) A guide to the study of the muscular system in birds
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Shufeldt, Robert W. (Robert Wilson), 1850-1934
Subjects: Ravens -- Anatomy Birds -- Anatomy Muscles
Publisher: London, New York, Macmillan and co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
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al spine of theaxis vertebra, blends very intimately with the innermargin of the longus colli posticus at its proper inser-tion. This last fasciculus is the shortest and thickestof this series. Professor Garrod gave an excellent figure (P.Z.S.,Plate xxvi.) of the very interesting arrangement of thelongus colli 2>osticus in the Plotus anhinga, and afterdescribing its peculiarities as they are found in thatl)ird, he says, in conclusion, that It is nearly alwaysthe case in avian anatomy that the inner fibres ofthe cervical portion of the longus colli posticus musclebecome difierentiated to form the cligastrique du couof Cuvier, better known to us as the hivenfer cervicis,a muscle one peculiarly interesting modification ofwhich, in the genus Ceryle among the Alcedinidse, hasbeen described and figured by Dr. Cunningham in theSocietys Proceedings (1870, p. 280). This, by the wayI may mention, I have had the opportunity of fully veri-fying, Meckel, in his General Treatise on Comparative T
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lvve,nte/i^ c^rvtci^. Fig. 70.—Right lateral view, life-size, of the head and neck of a Eaven, dissectedand drawn by the author. Designed to show the siiperHcial muscles ofthe region. Those at the back of the neck are lifted from their posi-tions ; while the bivcnter cervicis and compUxus are widely separated inorder to show the muscles lying beneath them. THE MUSCULATURE OF THE TRUNK. 275 Anatoyny, tells us that lie found it at its minimum of de-velopment in the Gallinae, the Goose, and the Cormorant.In a specimen of Sulafusca, as well as in Phalacrocoraxcarho, it is present, but extremely small, I find. It isentirely absent in Plotus anhinga, the longiis colliposterior (cervicalis ascendens, Meckel) entirely ceasingat the lower margin of the axis vertebra, in the tendonabove described. The longus colli jwsticKS in the Ajyteryx, as describedby Professor Owen, differs in the number of fasciculiof its accessory series, and other minor details, whilein the main it practically agrees w
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