HERODIONES 



absence of a biceps slip to the patagmm. Its leg muscle 

 formula too is that of a heron. Besides these facts 



Fl.h 



II 



FKI. 1 '.14. -SYRINX OF Scopus (AFTLR FIG. 195. DEEP PLANTAR TENDONS 

 BEDDARD). a. FRONT VIEW. b. SIDE OF Scopus (AFTER BEDDARD). 



Ih ^ ' /'/.'/, tlrxor hallucis : Fl.p, flexor proi'uinliis. 



which incline to both the stork and the heron side, and 

 which, perhaps, are the most important of such facts it 

 may be mentioned that Scopus shows a stork-like character 

 in the partial division of the pectoralis primus, 

 a fact which was first pointed oiit by FORBES 

 incidentally, in his report upon the petrels 

 collected during the voyage of the ' Chal- 

 lenger ' The patag/l muscles and tendons 

 are not specially distinctive of the affinities 

 of the bird. In my dissection of Scopus I 

 could not find the expansor sec mid a riorum ; 

 but as this muscle is found in most of the 

 Herodiones its absence is not in any way sig- 1/I( , 



llificailt, though it should doubtless be Pi. ANTAK. TENDONS 



verified. The CUICOHCCKS has a tendinous slip BEDDED)*. 

 to the humerus. The deep plantar tendonx 

 appear to vary somewhat ; in two specimens dissected by 

 myself I met with the two conditions illustrated in the two 



