The myology of Cyclothurus didactylus / by John Charles Galton.

  • Galton, John Charles.
Date:
1869
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Credit: The myology of Cyclothurus didactylus / by John Charles Galton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    !J^E OP October 18G9.] [ Frow Me Annals and Magazj^e op Natural History for (3 THE MYOLOGY CYCLOTHURUS D BY JOHN CHAKLES GALLON, M.A., F.L.^., fecturer on comparative anatomy at charing cross hospital*. [Plate vm.] iiEOUGH tlie kindness of Prof. Flower, F.P.S., Conservator ’ the Museum of the Koyal College of Surgeons, I have been Fabled to examine the muscles of a specimen of the Two-toed Piiteater [CyclotJiurus Lessonf). The animal was ‘I’emale, fairly developed, and measured from the tip of the '* Communicated hy the Author, having been read at the Meeting of !5 British Association for the Advancement of Science, at Exeter, ;.gust 24, 18G9. b See ‘Kevision of the Genera and Species of Entomophagous Eden- aa,’ by Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S. (Proc. Zool. Soc. April 18G6, p. 386 and 19. '‘.Vo mention is made of this species of Anteater either in the French edi- r Q (2 Tols. Paris, 1801) of Don Felix d’Azara’s Essays on the Natural His- y of the Quadrupeds of Paraguay, or in Dr. Rengger’s ‘ Naturgeschichte • Saugethiere von Paraguay,^ Basel, 1830. In the first volume (the ;.y one ever published), however, of an English translation from the |.ginal Spanish of the former author, by Mr. W. Perceval Hunter, F.G.S. din. 18.38), we are informed (p. 163) that “ Buftbn describes a third jcies of Anteaterand the Don proceeds, somewhat scoffingly, to ques- n the correctness of the observations of this unfortunate butt of natu- ■ists, and thus concludes, after the fashion of a counsel on a losing side:— i'inally, I leave it to time to prove or disprove mj conjecture.” Time ) disproved his conjecture; and Buffon, for once in a way, is right. The translator, in some “Additional Notes” (p. 169), quotes from the enny Cyclopaedia ’ (vol. ii. pp. 63-66) a description of the habits of the tteater in question, which was taken from Von Sack’s ‘Narrative of a ya^e to Surinam ’—a work, as Mr. Hunter truly observes, “rarely met - ^ extract from the preface to Mr. Hunter’s translation the Spanish titles ►'Azara’s works, which were published in five octavo volumes:— .. “ Apuntamientos para la Historia natural de los Quadrupedos del rraguay y llio de la Plata, escritos por Don Felix de Azara, en dos nos, en la imprenta de la viuda de Ibarra, Madrid.” !. “ Apuntamientos para la Historia natural de los paxaros del Paraguay ‘ lio de la Plata, escritos por Don Felix de Azara, en tros tomos. Ma- 1, 1802.” A