Gallus Bankiva of India, 5 
Having the usual origin and insertion, a beautiful 
expansor secundariorum is found to be represented ; and 
should one care to study this curious little muscle, I know 
of no form in which it can be more successfully done than 
in the species before me. 
Opening the thoracic and abdominal cavities, I note the 
presence of the fatty great omentum, spreading over the 
entire mass of abdominal viscera, a large, triangular 
obturator internus muscle, and the system of air-sacs far 
better developed than I ever found them in any of our 
domestic fowls; indeed, in some varieties of these latter, 
the air-sacs show evident signs of atrophy. The cntestinal 
ceca are of unusual length, each measuring fully fifteen 
centimetres, and terminating in bulbous extremities. 
Unfortunately, theliverand 
other parts were so decom- 
posed that I could do noth- 
ing with them. As to the 
gizzard and its — special 
form, a better idea can be 
obtained from my drawing 
of it, herewith presented, 
than any written descrip- 
tion can convey. (Fig. 1.) 
Nothing \s orthy of special 
record characterizes the 
heart in this specimen. 
With this brief descrip- 
tion, then, of these various 
“soft parts,” and other 
characteristics of this wild 
Indian fowl, we will now 
proceed to investigate the 
skeletons of the pair before 
us, which is really the main 
object t had in view in writ- 
ing this paper. And first, 
as to the most interesting 
part of their osseous system, of India, Drawn life-size by the author 
or, the skull. from the specimen, 
Vig. 1. Part of intestinal tract, and 
the gizzard of the wild Gallus bankiva 
