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594 MR. J. C. GALTON ON THE MYOLOGY OP 



Those fibres which are fused at origin with the bioej ■ •ventualh join the inferior 

 edge of the inner portion of the semiteridinosus jusi before its insertion. 

 Biceps.-— A large muscle, arising immeriiai ly below tlm glut, is <xbim s seem- 



ly from fascia 



dorsal muscles, and fusing at tin' lowest part with the 



semimembranosus. Its upper portion spoodily becoii s differentiated from the rest of 

 the muscle, and has a tendon developed along its iui rior edg , which is finally inserted 

 into a tubercle at the head of the libula, near its ju iction with the tibia, being 



by its upper edge, with the aponeurosis or fascia in which tin le 



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'o.g'm 



femoris is lost. 



The rest of the muscle covers the whole of the triangular •»] ' included between a 

 basal line drawn from its origin to its insertion and a j nlitcal aj> s formed by the <emi- 

 flexed leg with the thigh, and terminates partly in fascia eoveriiiLT the front of the leg, 



and partly at the caleaneum, the muscular liln i being continued nlmoM down to thi 

 bone. 



Prof. Humphry 1 notices only the latter mode of termination. Cuvier's representa- 

 tions of this muscle 2 agree very well with my description i lie oditoi . moreover, of lib 



'Leans' states 3 that in the Orycteropus. as well as in the Armadillo, the hi<\ >• descends 

 to the caleaneum. 



In this animal, as in Dasypus, the bic ps has no 1 moral head of origin. In the.u' 

 and Anteater, on the contrary, according to Meel 1 \ this muscle derives i. it of its 



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from the femur 



Qastroenernkte.— A muscle of great development 1 . rnal li d t ; ikes origin from 



the outer margin of the femur, immedi ely above ihc condyle, mainly by a stron 



tendon, in which a sesamoid bone, or « la!, 11 ,fc devrl ,,„ u hi lavs 01 Of B Miiooth 

 facet on the posterior part of the condyle. Tin in er hnid ris. > bv'a strong tendon 

 from the inner edge of the shaft of the i mur, ImmrdfatHv K>ve the condyle of the 

 same side, and fleshy from the internal lateral li . ,„„ , j«j , with its fellow a littl 



below the midcUe of the calf, to termin te eventually tin ' po si.- mitv of tb 



caleaneum, ma strong « tendo Achillis." A small slip is gi u off from tl. - u ter factor, 

 to be inserted close to, and in advance of, t h , 



tX °1 ? TCte ? US ' " ^ * «™» h : *- following in es. 



tiona^ k ™* "teat r , b t his d, * 



Tin<^* I f nder asi l * * ■*» eondyl f I « f mur, which, evidently, 



!Sr °^ t0 t,,e V*™™ ■• th u,h nol mentioned by him in eol- 



ith this 



' Loc. cit. p. 312. 

 Loc. cit. p. 521. 



5 " There is a fabella behind the <* r condvie < f t K* 4 

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