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Title: Contributions to the anatomy of birds
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Shufeldt, Robert Wilson, 1850- (from old catalog) United States. Geological and geographical survey of the territories. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Washington
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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racoid, internal aspect. Fig. 33. Scapular extremity of clavicle. Fig. 34. Left scapula and coracoid, external aspect, showing extent of glenoidcavity. Fig. 35. The thirteenth cervical vetebra, showing first pair of free pleurapophyses. Fig. 36. Left humerus, palmar aspect. Fig. 37. Hyoid arch from below. Fig. 38. Anterior view of sternum, first dorsal vertebra, with its movable pleura-pophyses and hsemapophyses, in situ. Fig. 39. Eight tarso-metatarsus, anterior aspect. Fig. 40. Eight femur, anterior asr>ect. Fig. 41. Sclerotals, right eye. Fig. 42. Eight tibia and fibula, anterior aspect. Fig. 43. Eight ulna, anconal aspect. Fig. 44. Eight foot, with a portion of the podotheca removed to show tlie os meta-tar^ale accessorium, in situ. Fig. 46. Eight femur, posterior aspect. *The figures on this plate are numbered in continuation with the authors plates and figures to his. Memoir on the Osteology of Speotyto cunicularia hypogcea. LL. US GEOL SURV. VOL. VI PLATE IV. FiS 24 Fi#. 27.
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Big JO. OSTEOLOGY OF EREMOPHILA ALPESTRIS. OSTEOLOGY OF THE NORTH AMERICAN TETRAONIDH. By R. W. Shufeldt, M. D., Captain, Medical Department, United States Army. The representatives of the Gallinaceous order of birds in the NorthAmerican fauna are referred to four families, the Cracidce, the Melea-gridce, the Tetraonidce, and the Perdicidw. Members of the family Or a-cidce or the Curassows, are all American birds, being distributed overthe continent from the Rio Grande southward. The latter group has been divided by Messrs. Sclater and Salvin intothree subfamilies, the Cracinw, the Penelopince, and the Oreophasinw. Ofthe fifty or more species making up these subfamilies, at the presentwriting, but one form has been taken within the limits of the UnitedStates, this being the Ortalis vetula maccalli, the Ghachalaca of theTexan s and Mexicans. The subfamily Penelopince, referred to above,has been divided into seven genera, of which Ortalis is the last, andthe one to which our only North

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