Australian Museum Journal Muscles of the neck, trunk and tail in the Noisy Scrub-bird, Atrichornis clamosus, and Superb Lyrebird, Menura novaehollaindiae (Passeriformes: Atrichornithidae and Menuridae)
- Shortform:
- Zusi, 1985, Rec. Aust. Mus. 37(4): 229–242
- Author(s):
- Zusi, R. L.
- Year published:
- 1985
- Title:
- Muscles of the neck, trunk and tail in the Noisy Scrub-bird, Atrichornis clamosus, and Superb Lyrebird, Menura novaehollaindiae (Passeriformes: Atrichornithidae and Menuridae)
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 37
- Issue:
- 4
- Start page:
- 229
- End page:
- 242
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.37.1985.311
- Language:
- English
- Date published:
- 20 November 1985
- Cover date:
- 20 November 1985
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Subjects:
- AVES; OSTEOLOGY
- Digitized:
- 16 January 2009
- Reference number:
- 311
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (146kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (2393kb PDF)
Abstract
Muscles of the neck, trunk and tail of the Noisy Scrub-bird, Atrichornis clamosus, are described, illustrated and compared with those of the Superb Lyrebird, Menura novaehollandiae. , It is proposed that hypertrophy of various neck muscles in Atrichornis, is related to use of the head in penetrating litter and undergrowth. Atrichornis, and Menura, are shown to have qualitative differences in myology and in morphology of the uropygial glands, but taxonomic interpretation of these differences is judged to be premature without broader comparisons.