Australian Museum Journal The evolution of the skull and the cephalic muscles: a comparative study of their development and adult morphology. Part III. The Sauria (continued). The Aves
- Shortform:
- Leighton Kesteven, 1945, Aust. Mus. Mem. 8(4): 270–293
- Author(s):
- Leighton Kesteven, H.
- Year published:
- 1945
- Title:
- The evolution of the skull and the cephalic muscles: a comparative study of their development and adult morphology. Part III. The Sauria (continued). The Aves
- Serial title:
- Australian Museum Memoir
- Volume:
- 8
- Issue:
- 4
- Start page:
- 270
- End page:
- 293
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1967.8.1945.513
- Language:
- English
- Date published:
- 13 June 1945
- Cover date:
- 13 June 1945
- ISSN:
- 0067-1967
- CODEN:
- AUNMA5
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Subjects:
- AVES
- Digitized:
- 11 June 2009
- Reference number:
- 513
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (268kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (5471kb PDF)
Abstract
[Contents] The Muscles of the Birds. The Larynx and its Muscles. Summary and Review of Sauropsidan Muscles. Review of the Saurian Muscles. The muscles of the birds. Eighteen birds have been dissected for this section of the work, but, as there is a marked similarity in the arrangement of the muscles, only those which present interesting features will be described in detail. The conditions in Gallus, which is described fully, may be regarded as the normal, or typical, arrangement for the birds. The majority of those examined resemble it closely. ... [etc.]