Gallus Bankiva of India. 29 
Presenting the usual sigmoid curves in the continuity of 
its smooth and somewhat compressed shaft the humerus of 
our jungle cock is a thoroughly pneumatic bone, the fossa 
harboring the foramen being well overarched by the ulnar 
tuberosity. 
Between this latter and the large ellipsoidal head, there 
exists a rather deep and circumscribed pit or valley, while 
another and shallower excavation is to be found just 
beyond the humeral head on the anconal aspect of the 
shaft. The radial crest is moderately prominent, while at 
the distal extremity of the bone both radial and oblique 
tubercles are more than usually conspicuous. 
Along the bowed and heavy shaft of ulna we note pecu- 
liar markings denoting the sites where the butts of the 
secondary quills are inserted; these, however, are not 
elevated into papill@ as in some avian types ; and this bone 
is to some degree, especially its proximal moiety, laterally 
compressed, and withal thoroughly non-pneumatic, as are 
the remaining skeletal parts of this limb. 
Radius is straighter than ulna, being but slightly curved 
downwards in the vertical plane; while its shaft, too, 
shows some lateral flattening, but in its case, along the 
distal half of the bone, the very reverse of its companion 
in the antibrachium. Thus formed, it is evident that a 
considerable ‘‘ interosseous space ” must exist in the skele- 
ton between these long bones of the forearm, which is 
really the case (Fig. 17). Carpus offers us the usual 
radiale and ulnare segments fashioned almost identically 
as we find them among the Gallinw generally, and having 
precisely the same articulatory relationships. Passing to 
the skeleton of manus, we are at first principally struck 
with what might be termed the comparative strength of 
the parts. There is a moderate approach towards massive- 
ness in the pinion-bones of any fowl of the genus Gallus, 
and the wild species offers no exception. Others have 
noted the relative shortening of the manus and antibrach- 
Prof. Parker’s drawings from the same article (Figs. 35, 86 and 87), and con 
trasting them with my figures here given for the same bones in @, bankiva. 
(Figs. 21 to 30 inclusive.) 
