THE MUSCLES OF THE UPPER EXTREMITY. 69 



system of any one of all those birds possessed of the 

 power of Hight. 



49. llie jyecf oralis inajor^ is by far the largest muscle 



^ FiirbriDger and Gadow divide the jjectoralis major muscle into 

 three parts, viz. the pars thoracica, the pars j^ropatagialis, and the 

 pars ahdomi7ialis . 



Omitting the descriptive part, I present the synonymy of these 

 divisions as recorded by Gadow in Bronn's Klassen ties IVtier-lleichs, 

 (vi. Band, pp. 241, 242), which is as follows : — 



" 73. M. PECTORALIS. 



" I. Pars tlioracica. 

 Depressor alee. Borelli. ) 



Grand pectoral. Vicq d'Azyr, 1772, p. 623, No. 1. 

 ,, Cuvier. 



Gervais et Alix, p. 24; Alix, pp. 399-401. 

 Pectoralis major. Merrem, p. 152 ; Wiedemann, p. 82. 

 Grosser Brustmuskel. Tiedemann, § 249. 



Meckel, p. 31.5, No. 8; Schiipss, p. 108, No. 

 15 ; Prechtl, § 35. 

 „ „ Reid, p. 140 ; Rolleston, p. 4. 



De Man, p. 109 ; Watson, p. 80. 

 Feet oralis major et minor. Selenka, p. 121, No. 46 u. 47. 

 Pectoralis. Fiirbricger, Morpholorj. Jahrb., v., Monograp)hie ; 

 Carlsson, p. 26. 



" II. Pars p/ropatagialis (Fllrbringer). 

 Tensor patagii membran. ant. aim. Selenka, No. 48 und 49 (partim). 

 Sehne vom Pectoralis major zum Tensor brevis patag. ant. De Man, 



p. 110. 

 Verstarkendes Sehnenbiindel vom Pect. major. De Man, p. 111. 

 Tensor membrance anterioris aloi, Theil a und b. Heusinger, p. 185, 



No. 19. 

 Langer und Kurzer Muskel der vorderen Fliigelfalte. Schopps, No. 



2 und 3 (partim). 

 Spanner das Windfangs. Prechtl, § 69 (partim). 



" III. Pars abdominalis (Fiirbringer). 

 Subcutaneus abdominalis. Wiedemann ; Tiedemann, § 100, No. 5, 

 ,, ,, Watson, p. 55. 



„ thoracis. Tiedemann, § 100, No. 4 ; Prechtl, § 71. 



