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111 the Raven its anterior fasciculus can be separated 

 almost as a distinct muscle, and this portion has its distal 

 tendinous slip inserted more particularly over the anterior 

 surface of the patella.^ 



^ By the older anatomists this gluteus jmmus muscle was con- 

 sidered in its entirety in their descriptions, and it has, as will be 

 seen, so been considered here. More recent writers, however, and 

 very properly so perhaps, have divided this complex muscular mass 

 into three portions, of which the anterior portion is generally taken 

 to represent the recttis femoris ; the middle portion, the tensor fascice 

 latce ; and the hinder division a " m. glutoeus jiosteriorr 



Gadow has admirably handled the subject, and the entire muscle 

 is claimed by him to be an Ulo-tihialis, and capable of division into 

 three parts. From this authority I here below obtain my synonymy, 

 and likewise republish largely from his accovint (see Bronn's Tliier- 

 Reichs, vi. Band, pp. 151-153) : — 



" 34. M. ILIO-TIBIALIS. 



" A. Der ganze Muskel-Complex. 

 M. primus tibiam moveris. Aldrovandi. 

 M. secundus femoris. Steno. 

 Latissimus /emoris. Wiedemann, p. 94. 

 Latissimus femoris = Tensor fasciae latoi. Tiedemann, § 295. 

 Tensor fasciae latce. d'Alton, p. 33. 



Tensor fasciae et caput longum m. bicipitis femoris. Gurlt, p. 28. 

 Rectus femoris et tensor fasciae. Quennerstedt, p. 24. 

 „ „ ,, ,, Neander, p. 16. 



" B. Die einzelnen Theile. 

 "I. M. ilio-tihialis anterior. 

 M. rectus femoris. Owen, Apteryx, p. 292. 

 Selenka, p. 14 2, No. 83. 

 DeMan, p. 124, No. 10. 

 ., ,, Watson, p. 110. 



M. ilio-tihialis externus. Gadow, No. 14. 



" II. M. ilio-tibialis medius. 



M. du fascia lata. Yicq d'Azyr, p. 272, No. 2 ; Cuvier, p. 523. 

 M. tensor fascicB lafca. Meckel, System, p. 360, No. 1 ; Gadov/, 

 No. 22. 



