BIBLIOGRAPHY. 127 



REFERENCES 



TO 

 THE PRINCIPAL WORKS UPON THE ANATOMY OF BIRDS. 



In addition to the list of General Works upon Comparative Anatomy 

 given at page 61, consult the very excellent article AVES by Professor 

 Owen in Todd's Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology, and that of 

 BIRDS by Dr. Macartney in Rees's Cyclopaedia ; also Tiedemann's Hand- 

 buch der Zoologie, Bd. 2, 1810. 



Tegumentary System. 



Nitzch's System der Pterylographie, with an Appendix upon the devel- 

 opment and microscopic structure of Feathers by H. Burmeister. Halle, 

 1840, 4to, with 10 copper-plate illustrations. 



Schreger de bursis mucosis subcutaneis, 1825, fol. 



Osseous System. 



Nitzch's Osteographische Beitrage zur Naturgeschichte der Vogel, 

 Halle, 1811, with two copper-plates. 



Pander and D'Alton, the Second Part of their " Vergleichenden Osteo- 

 logie" contains illustrations of the skeletons of Rapacious and Stmthious 

 Birds. 



Brandt, Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Naturgeschichte der Vogel. St. 

 Petersburg, 1839, 4to, are rich in osteological details. 



Plainer, Bemerkungen iiber das Quadratbein und die Paukenhohle der 

 Vogel. Leipzig, 1839, 4to. 



Earle, in Philosophical Transactions, 1822. 



Berthold, Beitrage zur Anatomie, Zootomie und Physiologic. Gottin- 

 gen, 1831. 



Kuhlmann, Dissertatio de absentia Furculae in Psittaco pullario. Kiliae, 

 1842, 8vo. 



Owen, Trans, of Zoological Society, vol. 2, monograph upon the Anat- 

 omy of the Apteryx. 



Bergmann, iiber die Bewegungen von radius und Ulna am Vogelfliigel. 

 Miiller's Archiv. 1839. 



Muscular System. 



Edward d' Alton de Strigum musculis commentatio. Halse, 1837. 



Nitzch, Artikel Dermorhynci in Ersch und Gruber's Encyklopadie 

 Band 24. 



Owen, Anatomy of Apteryx, op. cit. 



Naumann, Naturgeschichte der Vogel Deutschlands, contains observa- 

 tions, with figures, upon flight of Birds. 



