THE MUSCLES OF THE LOWER EXTREMITY. 183 



extremity of the shaft of the tibia, becomes finally 

 tJiereuj^on inserted on its internal surface. The hinder 

 maroin of the semime^nhrauosus is free, while its border 

 anteriorly is juxtaposed to the posterior edge of the 

 adductors. 



103. The feinoro-caudal ^ is another one of that 

 group of five or six muscles made historical through the 



1 Gadow has carefully gotten together quite a complete synonymy 

 of this muscle for us, which shows, in the most interesting way 

 possible, the various christenings it has been at various times sub- 

 jected to. I reproduce this synonymy here, it being fi'om the work 

 so frequently quoted throughout the present treatise : — 



" 36. M. CAUD-ILIO-FEMOKALIS. 



M. sextiis femoris. Steno. 



Le deuxieme ahducteur de la cidsse ; M. cruro-coccygien. Vicq 



d'Azyr, p. 278, No. 3. 

 Schwanzhiiftmuskel. Merrem, p. 158, No. 2. 

 M. cruro-coccygeus + Adductor 2^i^nus femoris. Wiedemann, p. 96 



u. 98. 

 Adductor jn'imus femoris + Cruro-coccygeus. Tiedemann, § 225 u. § 



290. 

 Birnmuskel. Meckel, System, pp. 355-357, No. 5. 

 Biroenfbrmiger Muskel. Meckel, Archiv, p. 263, No. 8. 

 Le femoro-caudien du cruro-coccygien. Cuvier, p. 288, No. 8. 

 Geinellus superior + inferior. Gurlt, p. 20 u. 27. 

 Adductor longus fe-nioris. Owen, Apteryx, p. 291. 

 Abaisseur superieur de la cuisse. Milne- Edwards. 

 Triceps adductor femoris (third head). Reid, p. 143. 

 Femoro-caudalis + Caput pelvinum m.fe^noro-caudalis. Sundevall. 

 Adductor longus. Selenka, p. 141, No. 81. 

 De Man, p. 123, No. 8. 

 Femoro-caudal + Accessoi^y-femoro-caudal. Gari'od. 

 Femoro-coccygien. Gervais et Alix, p. 32. 



,, ,, Alix, p. 433. 



M. caudi-ischio-ilio-femoralis. Gadow, No. 24. 

 Adductor longus femoris + Cruro-coccygeus. Watson, p. 105. 

 Hierzu Kommen noch die kleinen Hiilfsmuskeln, in der Literatur 



meistens ohne Namen. 



