108 AVES. 



FIG. III. 



CONNEXIONS OF THE NERVES IN THE NECK 



OF THE CRANE. 



(AEDEA CINEREA.) 



1. SYMPATHETIC nerve passing up in the canal with the vertebral artery. 



2. Glosso-pharyngeal nerve : it soon becomes united with the ninth ; branches 



are then given to the muscles and other parts, which receive them from 

 similar, but separate, nerves in the goose. 



3. Trunk of the par vagum ; it descends so close to the spinal nerves, that it is 



difficult to determine whether its adhesion to these be not through nervous 

 matter; but after a careful examination, it appeared most probable that it 

 was by mere expansions of neurilema. 



4. Ninth nerve. 



5. Hard portion of the seventh, giving a branch to the digastric muscle, and 



communicating with the second cervical nerve, the par vagum, and glosso- 

 pharyngeal near the junction of this with the ninth, and sending a branch 

 to terminate on a thin slip of muscle, that may be analogous with the stylo- 

 hyoideal in the goose ; after it has communicated with the second cervical 

 nerve, it is connected also with the third, and several more in passing down 

 the neck, but at length cannot be recognised ; in this course it gives 

 filaments to the long cutaneous muscle. 



6. A branch of the third trunk of the fifth passing out of the jaw ; it is similar 



to the small one in the goose 1, Fig. 2, Plate XXIL, and the larger one in 

 the pelican 5, Fig. 1, Plate XXI. 



