NOV &O 1920 
Reprint from 
THE JOURNAL OF ComPARATIVE MEDICINE AND SURGERY 
October, 18838. 
OBSERVATIONS UPON THE MORPHOLOGY OF 
GALLUS BANKIVA OF INDIA. 
(INCLUDING A COMPLETE ACCOUNT OF ITS SKELETON.) 
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BY R. W. SHUFELDT, M.D., C. M. Z. 8S. 
In the Jbis of 1881 (pp. 174-77), Forbes makes an appeal 
to ornithologists, in various parts of the world, to send him 
material in order that he may complete some of the work 
on the Anatomy of Birds, left by Garrod; and the last para- 
graph of this paper reads as follows, and he says: ‘“‘Imay add 
that I shall be very grateful if some of the many ornitholo- 
gists resident in India would procure me about half a dozen 
specimens (adult) of wild-shot Gal’us bankiva, in spirits, 
or even skeletons. As the first part of Prof. Garrod’s trea- 
tise is devoted to the anatomy of the Fowl, it is desirable to 
have wild specimens of it for dissection, or at least to de- 
scribe the bones from them, and not from any of our 
