Identifier: emu18aust (find matches)
Title: The Emu
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Australasian Ornithologists' Union Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Australasia Periodicals
Publisher: Melbourne : Australasian Ornithologists' Union
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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much excavated for its inferior half, which produces a sharpedge for its distal border. The ligament in which it is encasedis broad and strong. Tibiotarsus of the leg is a strong, straight bone, with a big,smooth, sub-cylindrical shaft. The low cnemial processes are widelyseparated in front, and extend but slightly, though equally, downthe shaft. They rise to some extent above the summit of theshaft, and possess a common, thickened margin proximad. The fibular ridge is rather short, and is confined entirely withinthe limits of the superior third of the shaft. Distally, above thecondyles, the shaft is somewhat compressed in the antero-posterior direction, being nearly flat posteriorly, while in frontit is shallowly grooved in the middle line, being spanned belowby a small osseous bridge, above which a roughened tubercle, oneon either side of the median groove, afford attachment for theligament that in life confines the tendons passing to the dorsumof pes. The Emu, Vol. XVIIU PLATE IX.
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^ic^is^) ^ii^^P^^DT, Skeleton of Kea Parrot (Nestor notahilis). 4I The condyles are separated by a smooth, well-marked valley orintercondylar space. In each one, their outer peripheries areelevated, especially in the case of the inner one, which at the sametime is more elongate than the fellow of the other side. Bothstand well out beyond the shaft posteriorly. Passing to the consideration of the fibula, we find the bone tobe short, stout, and straight ; while distally it is sharp-pointed,and when articulated, as in life, passes but a couple of millimetersbelow the fibular ridge on the tibiotarsus (fig. 16). On its outerside, at the juncture of the middle and lower thirds, there is theusual tubercle for the insertion of the tendon of the biceps muscle. Distally, as well as proximally, the extremities of the tarso-metatarsiis are more or less compressed in the antero-posteriordirection. This bone has a remarkable morphology, but this featureis still more evident in the tarsometatarsus o

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