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THE FUNDUS OCULI OF BIRDS 

 ESPECIALLY AS VIEWED BY THE OPHTHALMOSCOPE 



A Study in ComparatiA^e Anatomy and Physiology 



By 



CASEY ALBERT WOOD, M. D. 



Head Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Illinois; 

 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; 

 Fellow of the London Zoological Society. 



Illustrated by 145 drawings in the text; also by 60 colored paintings 



prepared for this work by 



ARTHUR W. HEAD, F. Z. S., 



London. 



200 pages handsomely bound in cloth 



The Lakeside Press, Chicago 

 1917 



This atlas and monograph has the following table of contents: 



I. Introduction; 2. Summary of Conclusions; 3. Collection and Preparation of 

 Material; Bibliography; 4. A Review of the Anatomy and Physiology of the 

 Organs and Tissues seen in the Fundus Oculi of Birds; 5. Ophthalmoscopy, 

 or the Examination through the Pupils, in Animate Specimens, of the Interior 

 of the Vertebrate Eye by means of the Ophthalmoscope; 6. Ophthalmoscopy 

 of Birds: 



A. The Eyeground in General. B. The Pecten and Optic Disk; 



C. The Macular Regions, Foveae and other areas of Acute Vision; 



D. The Fundal Bloodvessels, the Opaque Nerve Fibres, the 

 Choroid and the Retina; E. Photography of the Fundus in 

 Living Birds. 



7. Macroscopic Appearance of the Fundus Oculi of Birds in Prepared Speci- 

 mens; 8. Photography of the Fundus in Prepared Eyeballs; 9. Effects of 

 Domestication on the Fundus Oculi of Wild Species of Birds; 10. The Ophthal- 

 moscopic and Macroscopic Appearance of the Fundus Oculi in Various Orders 

 of Birds. 



A. Ratitae; B. Carinatae. 



II. Classifications of the Ocular Fundi of Birds. 



12. The Ocular Fundus of Birds in its Relation to a Classification of Aves; 



13. Relation of Reptilian to Avian Fundi. 



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