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and rib of the seventh to the third dorsal vertebra inclusive, 

 occupying the interspaces between those parts ; it is inserted 

 into the neural arch of the last cervical, and into the post- 

 zygapophysis of the next vertebra in advance. 



The series of muscles called 'longus colli,' ib. 28, 28, com- 

 mences by the broad origin from the under part of the first and 

 second costal plates, and is continued by eight narrower slips 

 from the hypapophyses of the first dorsal, and seven antecedent 

 cervical vertebrae. These fasciculi incline forward and inward, 



overlapping each other, to 

 be inserted successively 

 into the parapophyses of 

 the eighth and lower part 

 of the centrum of the ante- 

 cedent cervicals, with in- 

 terposed sesamoids at the 

 sixth, fifth, and fourth ver- 

 tebra? ; the foremost inser- 

 tion beino; into the basi- 

 occipital. 



Six or seven lateral por- 

 tions of cervical myocom- 

 mas, called intertransver- 

 sarii colli ; ib. 36, pass from 

 the diapophyscs of the 

 eighth to the second cervi- 

 cals, and are inserted aloii<j; 

 with the corresponding in- 

 sertions of the longus colli 

 from the sixth to the cen- 

 trum of the atlas, or odon- 

 toid. The intertransversarii 

 obliqui, figs. 148, 149, 37, 

 are four strips from the 

 diapophyses of the sixth, 

 fifth, fourth, and third vertebra?, which pass forward and down- 

 ward to the parapophyses of the fourth, third, second, and first 

 cervicals respectively. There arc interspinales between the 

 neural spines of the first three cervicals. 



The transversalis cervicis, fig. 151, 33, arises from the post- 

 zygapophysis of the fifth, fourth, and third cervicals ; these blend 

 outwardly, and detach inwardly insertions to the postzygapo- 

 physes of the fourth, third, and second cervicals, and into the 



Muscles lit' the dorsal, cervical, and occipital vertebra:, 

 Emys_Europcca. xxxvm. 



