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Description: Neck and trunk of Martha, the last Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) (same specimen). Skull and associated parts anterior to aural apertures have been cut away. Hyoidean apparatus, trachea and aesophagus drawn down considerably below normal position. Crop empty and wrinkled up. Os furculum dislocated at right shoulder, and right coracoid thrown out of its sternal articulation. Right pectoral muscles and other structures dissected away from sternum and drawn far to one side. Right side of sternum in full view. Thoracic and abdominal cavities opened up ventrally, and heart, left lobe of liver, gizzard, etc. exposed to view.
Title: Passenger Pigeon organs
Credit: Schufeldt, R. W. (1915). Anatomical and other notes on the Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) lately living in the Cincinnati Zoological Gardens. Auk 32(1): 29-41. https://archive.org/stream/jstor-4071611/4071611#page/n11/mode/2up
Author: R.W. Schufeldt
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