Abstract
THIS work is a systematic description of the form. structure, and relations of the various bones of the head of birds. Each bone is taken separately, and the chief varieties it presents in the several sub-classes are described, and are illustrated by carefully drawn plates. In here giving a brief notice of the work, we need scarcely say that the details of the several bones in the adult state are very well and clearly given, and the author has had opportunities, of which he appears to have thoroughly availed himself, of studying and comparing the skulls of a large number of birds. The mode in which the variations from typical structure are given is instructive and accurate. We will give an extract to show the mode in which he deals with the subject, and select a part of his account of the squama of the Temporal:—
Untersuchungen über den Ban des Knöchernen Vogelkopfes.
Von Dr. Hugo Magnus, Assistentarzt an der Klinik des Herren Prof. Dr. Förster, zu Breslau. Mit sechs Tafeln. (Leipzig: Engelmann, 1870; pp. 108. London: Williams and Norgate.)
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P., H. Untersuchungen über den Ban des Knöchernen Vogelkopfes . Nature 4, 364–365 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/004364a0
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