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Gallus Bankiva of Incia. 
the shaft in front. This latter is nearly straight. sub-ellip- 
tical upon mid section, and longitudinally furrowed for its 
lower third, anteriorly. In the male, the fibular ridge is 
nearly two centimetres in length, and occupies the greater 
part of the upper third of the shaft, on its outer aspect. 
Distally, and in front, we find the usual little osseous 
bridge for tendinal confinement, jast above the con- 
dyles. Of these latter, the outer is the thicker and most 
rounded, while posteriorly the surfaces of both merge 
together, 
In the fibula, the head is large and produced backwards : 
the bone never anchyloses with the tibio-tarsus in this 
species, and after passing the fibular ridge dwindles to a 
mere thread, being produced to a point something over a 
centimetre above the external condyle of the main bone of 
the leg (Figs. 27, 28 and 3v). 
Ever full of interest to the ornithotomist, the farso-meta- 
tarsus in G. bankiva is the more especially so, on account 
of the conical osseous calcar which is firmly anchylosed to 
the roughened longitudinal line and to the shaft at the 
lower third of its length. 
To its base and mesial aspect this calcar or bony 
spur-core is worn absolutely smooth and shiny by the con- 
stant chafing of the ossified neighboring tendons which 
bear against it during the life of the bird. The ‘‘ hypotar- 
sus” of this bone is roughly cubical in form ; has one com- 
plete, perforating tendinal passage to its inner aspect, and 
posterior to which the longitudinal margin, mesiad, is 
thickened and terminated below as a sharpened process 
(Fig. 23). For the rest, to its outer side, two faint tendinal 
grooves traverse it lengthwise. Anteriorly, the tarso-metal 
tarsus is guttered out for the full length of its squarish 
shaft—faintly so for its distal moiety, conspicuously so, 
proximad—the latter gradually shallowing as we pass 
from above, downwards (Fig. 24). 
At the lower end of the bone we find the usual arterial 
foramen perforating it; and trochleze here are large and 
prominent (Fig. 25). A distinct facet is seen above the 
inner one, intended for the articulation of the rather large 
‘‘accessory metatarsal ” of this fowl. 
