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fécond, third, and fourth ribs, and ending alfo 

 flefhy in the fkin a confiderable way behind the 

 wings. It is a bundle of flelhy fibres about as 

 thick as a fmall finger, and equal in bignefs all 

 along j it has a very ftrong adtion, being entirely 

 flefhy, and muft of confequence contrad in every 

 part-, and as the place of its infertion in the 

 {km is alfo the place of the infertion of a large 

 group of feathers, having no fort of connexion 

 with the great wing, which i^ moved by its own 

 proper mufcles analogous to thofe of the hume- 

 rus in other animals, it muft have been defigned 

 for a very particular ufe both in land and water- 

 fowls, for which we muft refer to the faid lec- 

 ture, where they are fully accounted for. In the 

 mean time you will pleafe to add the name I 

 have invented for this mufcle, which will in fomc 

 meafure be expreffive of its ufe. It is the 



Mufcultts novus remtgatorius^ 



The new fteering, or rowing mufcle. 



" Now, in water-fowls, as well as in thofe of 

 land, this may be called the Rmigatorius ante- 

 rior^ 



