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Title: The structure and classification of birds
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Beddard, Frank E. (Frank Evers), 1858-1925
Subjects: Birds -- Anatomy Birds
Publisher: London New York (etc.) Longmans, Green, and co.
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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s of Ichthyornis to Hesperornis have beendwelt upon by some; but it appears that LYDEKKEESremark, that the Odontornithes are a series of birds ances-tral to the modern series of toothless carinates, expresses thetruth. He has furthermore added that this series differsfrom the Euornithes (STEJNEGERS name for carinates) by theabsence of union between the rami of the mandible andbetween the distal ends of the ischium and ilium, likenesseswhich do not mean a near relationship, but express thedegree of development of bird structure at that period. 472 STRUCTURE AND CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS ACCIPITRES Definition.—Aquincubital. Oil gland present. Two carotids. Skulldesmognathous and holorhinal. Caeca rudimentary or absent.Ambiens present. Biceps slip absent. This large group of birds admits of but a scanty defini-tion, if we are to include in it, as is here done, the secretarybird and the American vultures; for it then shows a con-siderable amount of structural variation. The oil gland, Anc
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FIG. 226.—TENSOKES PATAGII OF Polyboroides (AFTER BEDDAED).t.p.l, tensor patagii longus ; t.p.br, tensor brevis ; Anc, ancoujeus ; D, deltoid. invariably present, is generally feathered, but nude in theCathartidse. In Serpentarius this gland varies in size; inone specimen it was found to be very small and to have avery minute tuft. The after shaft is absent in the Cathartidse and in Pandion,present in other Accipitres. Twelve rectrices is the usual ACC1PITEES 473 number, but fourteen occur in Neophron percnopterus andRhinogryphus californianus. There are powder-down patches in Eton us, Circus, andGypaetus. The ptcryloxis is described for a variety of typesby NITZSCH. The ventral tract broadens out on the breast, whereit is even sometimes (Gyps fulvus) divided into an outerand inner branch. The dorsal tract forks upon theshoulders ; in Gi/paetus barbatus each limb of the fork isconnected by a single row of feathers with the long singlemedian posterior portion of the tract. In Periiis

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