Hi all! My work team and I are looking for papers on muscular descriptions of the hindlimbs of birds (extant and extinct) that include the intrinsic muscles of digits. Any help will be more than welcome! Thanks!
see Manual of ornithology by Proctor and Lynch. chap. pelvic and leg muscles. next to fig leg muscle you will find the references lit: berger 1960 The musculature in Marshall ed Biol Comp physiol birds NY AP. Chamberlain 1943 Atlas of avian Anatomy. Mich Agric Exp Sta mem Bull 5. George and Berger 1966 Avian myology NY AP. Hudson 1937 Studies muscles pelvic appendages birds. Amer Midl Nat 18: 1-108. idem et al., (1959) Muscle of the pelvic limbs in galliform birds. Amer midl Nat 61: 1-67
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I researched these pelvic limb muscles of birds for a thesis. My dissections were specifically of the pelvic limb of the Peregrine Falcon (F. peregrinus) and Goshawk (A. gentilis). I read all the literature that was available. A big problem for me was that in the older (before 1990) literature the same muscle could have one of several names and also the same name could apply to different muscles, all depending on who wrote the paper. Jim Vanden Berge and Gart Zweers addressed this by producing an accepted standard nomenclature for the Handbook of Avian Anatomy Nomina Anatomica Avium II, which in longer published but you can find it as a pdf on-line. Although it is about 30 years old, it is a fantastic book and covers all systems as well as muscles. I would recommend everyone to follow NAAII names.
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I forgot to add, I did look at and draw all the intrinsic muscles of the digits, which I am happy to 'share'.
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