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Title: The structure and classification of birds
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Beddard, Frank E. (Frank Evers), 1858-1925
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: London, New York (etc.) Longmans, Green, and co.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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ily is represented by buta single species, the kagu (Bhinochetus jubatus), of NewCaledonia. The bird is not unlike a heron in appearance;but Babtlett, who made a careful study ^ of the habitsof specimens at the Zoological Societys Gardens, comparedits quick active movements rather with those of a cranethan with the slow motions of a heron. The anatomy ofthe bird has been chiefly studied by Paekee (osteology),^ So too apparently in Anthropoides stanleyanus (Pabkeb, Tr. Z. S. x. pi.liv. fig. 6). P. Z. S. 1862, p. 218. = On the Osteology of the Kagu, Zool. Trans, vi. p. 501. B B B70 STRITCTUEE AND CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS MuEiE (dermal and visceral structures)/ and myself(syrinx and muscular anatomy).^ Others, however, particu-larly FuEBBiNGBE and Gaeeod, have contributed details ofimportance to our knowledge of this bird. The powder-down patches, which were originally dis-covered by Baetlett, exist as scattered groups of feathersof the kind; there are not the regular patches found in the
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Fig. 178.—Certain Leg Muscles oe Bhinochetiis (aftek Beddaed).(S^, semitendinosus; 4, its accessory ; jSfm, semimembranosus. near ally of Bhinochetus, Mesites. The oil gland is presentbut nude. The feathers have an aftershaft. There aretwelve rectrices. The pterylosis, imperfectly described by On the Dermal anl Visceral Structure of the Kagu, Zool. Trans, vii.p. 465. Contributions to the Anatomy of the Kagu, P. Z. S. 1891, p. 9. See alsoW. Mabshall, Quelques Observations sur la Splanchuologie de Bhino-chetus juhatus, Arch. Nierl. 1870, p. 402. GEUES 871 Mtjeib, has been rather more fully dealt with by Forbes,The dorsal tract is double on the neck, and continues sountil its termination about on a level with the scapulae.The posterior portion of the dorsal tract is not continuouswith the anterior portions; it terminates with a slight bifur-cation anteriorly and is widely dilated mesially. The ventraltract is broken into two by the intervention of powder-downs,and the pectoral branch i

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