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4. Weka Weka Bail— In this bird, the two long flexor 

 muscles have their tendons united into a single partially ossi- 

 fied tendon, which is about an inch in length, and subdivide 

 into the four long flexors of the toes. 



Weka Rail (long flexors of toes). 



1. First toe, 7.7 per cent. 



2. Second toe, .... 29.5 ,, 



3. Third toe, .... 33.3 ,, 



4. Fourth toe, .... 29.5: „ 



Total, . . . 100.0 



Weight. 



33.3 per cent. . 0.06 oz. av. 

 19.2 „ . 0.03 „ 



47-5 



Total, . . 100.0 



5. Silver Pheasant. — In the pheasant the fl. hall. long, is 

 distributed, by means of an ossified tendon, to the first toe, 

 and by a tendinous cross band to the ossified tendon of the 

 second, third, and fourth toes, which is pulled, by the y?, dig. 

 longus ; and, with the exception of this cross band, the two 

 tendons are quite distinct. 



Flexor hall, long., 

 Flexor dig. long.. 

 Friction, fyc, 



Silver Pheasant (i 



1. First toe, . . 



2. Second toe, . . 



3. Third toe, . . 



4. Fourth toe, . . 



Total, . 



'ong flexors of toes). 



• • I 5-7 P er cent * 



. . 26.3 



. . 36.8 „ 



. . 21.2 



. 100.0 



