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the limbs of other Vertebrata, as a supinator, and feeble 

 antagonist to the powerful pronators to be described 

 further on. 



76. The flexor metacarpi radialis 1 is the lowest of 

 the group of three muscles on the outer aspect of a 

 Raven's forearm. Its mode of origin is very interesting, 

 for we find it arises by two distinct tendinous heads, 

 the longer one coming off from the external condyle of 

 the humerus, where it overlaps the origin of the supina- 

 tor brcvis, while the shorter one arises from the ulna 

 j ust without and rather beyond the base of the olecranon 

 process. In common with the others of the group of 

 muscles to wiiich it belongs, it has a fusiform shape for 

 the proximal moiety of the forearm, and is intimately 

 attached for its middle third to the interosseous 

 membrane. 



Bather beyond the middle of the s'haft of the ulna the 



1 Tiedernann used this name for the muscle here described, as will 

 be noted from Gadow's synonymy (loc. cit., p. 276) : 



" 89. M. EXTENSOR METACARPI ULNARIS. 



Le long Jlechisseur dumetacarpe. Vicq d'Azyr, p. 575, No. 5. 

 Cubital interne. Cuvier. 



Hintei-er innerer Handspanner. Merrem, p. 156(1). 

 Oberer oder langer Mittelhandbeuger. Wiedemann, p. 91. 

 Flexor metacarpi radialis. Tiedemann, 271. 



,, Heusinger, p. 188, No. 25. 



Aeusserer Ellenbogenmuskel. Meckel, p. 335, No. 3. 

 Abductor metacarpi. Schopss, p. 150, No. 33. 

 Langer Mittelhandbeuger. Prechtl, 55. 

 Extensor carpi ulnaris. Selenka, p. 131, No. 60. 



,, De Man, No. 24 ; Watson, p. 95 ; Carlsson, 



p. 23. 



Le cubital posterieur. Gervais et Alix, p. 27. 



Alix, p. 409." 



[This muscle flexes the hand on the antibrachium, although it 

 arises from the external condyle. R. W. S.] 



