88 THE MYOLOGY OF THE RAVEN. 



of the coracoid bone " (Anat. Verts., vol. ii. p. 95). 

 Of course it is hard for me to judge, as I say, in 

 the absence of Professor Owen's figure, but if the 

 fibres of this subclavius muscle have the same direction 

 as his pectoralis minor, then it is hard to see how 

 they could divide the subscapularis in two portions, 

 which pass between the scapula and the humerus. 

 (For the way these muscles occur in the Eaven, see 

 No. 60 et seq.) 



57. The supraspinatus l (Figs. 24, 27, and 34) 

 is a thin, flat muscle of a triangular form, its base 

 being represented by its origin, and its apex by its 

 insertion. It arises from the superior surface and outer 



1 " Recht stark entwickelt ist der Muskel bei Corvus," says 

 Gadow, in speaking of the supraspinatus, which he describes in 

 Bronn's Thier-Reichs as the scapuli-humeralis anterior, with the 

 subjoined synonymy (vi. Band, p. 235) : 



"71. M. SCAPULI-HUMERALIS ANTERIOR. 



L 1 humero-scapulaire. Vicq d'Azyr, 1773, p. 569. 

 Schulterarmmuskel. Wiedemann, p. 86. 



Prechtl, 41. 



Humero-scapularis parvus. Tiedemann, 257. 

 Heusinger, 184. 



SujTrasjrinatuSjOder Teres minor ? Meckel, System, p. 312, No. 6. 



Schopss, p. 107. 



Teres minor. Reid, p. 142; Nitzsch-Giebel. 

 Subscapularis (inferior posterior). Macalister, p. 16. 

 Infraspinatus. Retzius, Selenka, p. 113, No. 38. 



De Man, p. 106 ; Carlsson, p. 19. 



Teres minor s. Infrascapularis. Gurlt, p. 21. 

 Le petit rond. Gervais et Alix, p. 22. 

 Supraspinatus. Riidinger, p. 86. 



,, Watson, p. 85. 



Weldon, p. 643. 



Infraspinatus. Fiirbringer, Morph. JaJirb., v. 

 Scapulo-J turner alis anterior. Fiirbringer, Monographie." 



