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fuch as the Canals are, by the means of Cords drawing 
them, which are the Mulcles, is made ufe of in Coaches 
to pull up the Glafles of the Doors ; for the String, 
being fatten’d to the lower part of the Glafs-Frame, 
makes it rife when drawn, which refembles thata&ion of 
the Mufcles by which this Tongue is moved; 
Of thefe Cartilages and other Parts, and of the Head 
of the Bird, Mr. Perault gives the Figures. 
Either the Wood* peckers in France are different from 
ours in England \ or this Figure of the Head is very ill de- 
figned; it being much too broad and large, and the Beak 
too fhort. Befides he makes the two Cartilages to come 
to the Root of the Beak feparately, one on one fide, the 
other on the other fide of it; whereas in all the Wood- 
peckers Heads I have met with, the two Cartilages joyn 
clofe together about the Top of the Head, and thence 
proceed joyned, tho’ not faftned to one another, a little 
flanting. towards the right Nofe- hole, where they end to- 
gether. 
Befides upon viewing and examining feveral Subjettts, 
I could not find them agree in diyers particulars with his 
Account and Explication. For the Mufcles which are 
fattened to the end of the Cartilages at the Root of the 
upper Beak, are not inferted at the Larynx, but pafs on 
and are fattened to the lower Bill. This pair I take to be 
the Mufcles chiefly concerned in forcing the Tongue out 
of the Bill. There is another pair of Mufcles, which, 
being fattened to the place where the two bony Cartila 
ges are articulated with one fingle Bone in the fore-part 
of the Tongue ; (as will be fhewn in the 4th Figure ) is, 
as I apprehend, the chief pair concerned in the drawing 
the Tongue with its Prey into the Mouth. Thefe pro- 
ceeding from that articulation of the Cartilages as far 
as the Larynx, ( each of them fending a Branch to 
the Cartilage Scutifcrmis) from thence go on along with 
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