On the Structure and Development of the Crow's Skull
1872; Wiley; Volume: 8; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1111/j.1365-2818.1872.tb02204.x
ISSN1747-3438
Autores Tópico(s)Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
ResumoMY first materials for working out this ty e of skull were obtained for me by our esteemed member, W. H. !he, Esq.Other specimens came to me from friends in different parts of the country, no few of these having been laid under contribution for hatched and unhatched chicks of various birds.The Crow is the great subrational chief of the whole kingdom of the Birds; he has the largest brain; the most wit and wisdom; albeit, at times the cruellest of the birds of wing.He, or at least some of the secondary chieftains of his tribe, can speak with man's voice, and, full of drollery and satire, make mockery of all and every of the many voices that are in the world.Half the known breeds that are, owe allegiance to the kingly Crow : of a full and literal myriad of feathered species, a good half are ennobled by Mr. Huxley's title, namely, that high-sounding and yet hoarse name--" Coracomorphae." * This termthe Crowform-is not to be taken as interchangeable with the name of the Crow family--" CorvidS''-but as the expression of a sweeping generalization which gathers together from the very ends of the earth all those birds that have the same morphological characters as the Crow.Even birds that are to all intents and purposes Crows have to be broken up into many (( sub-families,"-there are the Northern and the Southern Crows; the Starlings, Choughs, Nutcrackers, Birds of Paradise, and a host of others; all Crows,
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