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The eustachian tubes of birds in proceeding from the two ear drums, 

 first join each other, and then open into the pharynx by one median 



passage, like some of the 

 amphibians already men- 

 tioned. The cochlea of 



FIG. 209. Diagrams of Audi- 

 tory Labyrinth. ( Waldeyer.) 

 I. A Fish. 

 II. A Bird. 



III. Mammal and Man. 

 . Sacculus. 

 u. Utriculus. 

 c. Cochlea. 

 Cr. Canalis reuniens. 

 a. Ampullae. 

 6. Semicircular canals. 

 R. Acqueduct of the vestibule. 



birds is only slightly 

 twisted like that of the 

 reptiles. The interior of 

 FIG. 209. their scala media is much 



less complicated than that of the higher mammals and does not possess 

 the arches of Corti. In fact, these belong to the mammals alone. The 

 other sac, however, the labyrinth, is amply developed in birds, and the 

 three semicircular canals 

 are large. The lowest of 

 the mammals are, like the 

 birds, derived from reptil- 

 ian stock. And as they 

 are close to the point of 

 separation, in many par- 

 ticulars they resemble the 



FIG. 211. 



Stapes of Kangaroo^ 

 a Marsupial. 



_. s of Perameles. a 



Marsupial. 



birds, as they resemble the 



reptiles below them. Thus A.-Ear bonls'of l p'erameles, a 



in the Monotremes the 

 cochlea is only slightly bent upon itself, not coiled, as in other mammalia. 

 The stapes bone is similar to the columella of birds. But the additional 



E 



FIG. 212. Stapes of Aquatic Mammals. 

 A Ornithorhynchus. B Porpoise. C. Walrus. D. Seal, ^.Manatee. 



( Owen.) 

 incus and malleus bones are alread} r present, the three being the successors 



of the ancient reptilian columella. In all the mammals, above the marsupi- 



