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seven oblique fasciculi of muscles seen at the side of 

 the neck. The first or posterior one of these is the one 

 which links the continuation of the system commenced 

 by the longus colli posticus, the longissimus dorsi, and 

 the sacro-lumbalis, and which is continued by the re- 

 maining fasciculi of the present muscle. 



This first or posterior representation of this com- 

 plicated series, as I say, arises from the diapophysis 

 of the eleventh cervical vertebra, winds obliquely over 

 the tenth vertebra to become inserted into the hinder 

 margin of the postzygapophysis of the ninth vertebra, 



Obliquus colli. Owen. 



Obliquo-transversales. Selenka, p. 97, No. 11." 



In order to make the spinal system of muscles in birds complete 

 as worked out by Gadow, we must yet quote his third part, which 

 is as follows : - 



" 3. M. CERVICALIS ASCENDENS. 



Long extenseur du cou (pt.). Vicq d'Azyr. 



Grosser Halsstrecker (pt.). Tiedernann, 213 ; Wiedemann, p. 76. 



Longus colli posticus (pt.). Owen; Selenka, p. 95, No. 4. 



Aufsteigender Nackenmuskel (pt.). Meckel, System, p. 293, No. 1. 



Cervicalis descendens. Gurlt, p. 18. 



Long posterieur du cou. Gervais et Alix, p. 14. 



Extensor magnus colli (pt.). Watson, p. 57." 



Note. -In consulting this synonymy, it must be compared with 

 the account of the longus colli fiosticus muscle of the present work, 

 of which Owen considered the above muscle to be but a part : 



" 3. M. CERVICALIS ASCENDENS. 



" Der laterale Theil (Cervicalis ascendens]. Seine oberflachlichen 

 Fasern sind directe Fortsetzungen des M. iliocostalis, oder der seit- 

 lichen Theile des J/. longissimus dorsi. Er entspringt in seinem 

 hintersten (eaudalwarts) Theile von den Rippen, hauptsachlich aber 

 von der Oberflache der Querfortsatze, weiter kopf warts aber von den 

 Enden oder Spitzen derselben. In der ganzen La'nge des Halses ist 

 der Cervicalis ascendens mit der unteren seitlichen Halsmuskulatur 

 verwachsen, die an der unteren Kante der Querfortsatze und an den 

 Halsrippen entspringt." (Gadow, loc. cit., p. 107.) 



