182 MU. F. J. BKLL ON MOSCHUS MOSCHIFERUS. [Feb. I, 



2. Notes on the Myology of the Limbs of Moschus moschi- 

 ferus. By F. Jeffrey Bell^ Exhibitioner of Magdalen 

 College^ Oxford. Communicated by Prof. Flowek, 

 F.R.S., V.P.Z.S. 



[Received December 31, 1875.] 



By the kindness of Prof. Flower, I have been enabled to dissect 

 the muscles of the fore and hind limbs of Moschus moschifervs, an 

 animal which has been lately made the subject of a monograph by 

 Prof. Flower, presented by him to the Society (P. Z. S. March 16th, 

 1875). The interest of any new facts that can be brought forward 

 concerning this Deer will be evident to all who heard or have read 

 his paper. 



In examining the myology of the limbs, I have dissected the cor- 

 responding parts in Cervus virginianus (kindly sent me by Mr. A. H. 

 Garrod), Traffulus, sp. ? (from the store-room of the Royal College 

 of Surgeons^of London), and a common Sheep. I have also been able 

 to make comparisons with the myology of the same parts in Hyomos- 

 chus, thanks to a paper published by M. Chatiu in the ' Annales des 

 Sciences Naturelles ' *. 



Unfortunately, both in the copy of Cuvier's ' Planches de Myolo- 

 gie ' which I saw through the kindness of Mr. Garrod, and in that 

 belonging to the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons, there 

 were no plates of the muscles of a sheep, ox, or deer ; but a full 

 description of those of the first two can be found in Chauveau's ' Com- 

 parative Anatomy of Domesticated Animals,' which is now easily 

 accessible ; and for this reason I have thought it unnecessary to de- 

 scribe, at any length, such muscles as oifer no important variations 

 from what we find in the Sheep ; in the same text-book will also be 

 found all the more common synonyms of the muscles — a most neces- 

 sary assistance to myologists in the present confused state of nomen- 

 clature. 



In the hind limb oi Moschus, as it came into my hands, the femur was 

 removed. The muscles of tlie humerus are not described in this paper ; 

 but the more striking differences are only found in the arrangement 

 of those muscles which send tendons to the digits. 



I. Fore limb, 



A. Muscles inserted into the metacarpus. 



a. Anterior face. 



( 1 ) Extensor metacarpi anterior. 

 ('J) „ „ obliquus. 



In the arrangement of these muscles there was no important vari- 

 ation from that which obtains in the same parts in the sheep and 

 deer dissected. 



* " ObEervations sur la Myologie de I'Hr/onwschus^' loc- cit. b' ser. Zoologie et 

 PaWoutologiP, torn. xr. (1872). 



