The longer and higher cnemial process of the tibia and the shortness of the humerus serve amply to justify the specific separation of this Mauritian owl.
In the tibio-tarsus the cnemial crest rises well above the head; the extensor groove is separated by a considerable interval from the inner border of the bone.
Limb-bones short and very stout, the ulna being shorter than the humerus, and having very prominent tubercles for the secondaries; cnemial crest of tibia greatly developed.
The proximal end of the anterior or extensor surface is drawn out into a very prominent =cnemial crest= which bends over towards the postaxial side of the bone; a slight ridge is continued from it all the way down the shaft.
The anterior surface of the proximal end of the tibia is marked by the strong =cnemial crest= (fig.
This tendon incloses the patella and inserts on a line along the proximal edges of the cnemial crests of the tibiotarsus.
The origin of the anterior head is fleshy from the proximal edge of the outer cnemial crest and from the internal edge of the distal end of the patellar tendon.
The origin is fleshy from most of the region between the cnemial crests and from a line along the anterior surface of the proximal fourth of the tibia.
The anterior head arises directly from the edges of the outer and inner cnemial crests.
The part of the origin from the proximal edges of the inner and outer cnemial crests is semitendinous but the part of the origin from the lateral edge of the shaft of the fibula is tendinous.
This tendon and the proximal end of the muscle pass between the head of the fibula and the outer cnemial crest.
Some of the fibers of the anterior part arise directly from the inner cnemial crest while its remaining fibers arise from the patellar tendon (Fig.
The origin is fleshy and tendinous from the edge of the outer cnemialcrest and fleshy from the superficial surface of the distolateral part of the patellar tendon; the posteroproximal corner arises tendinously from the femorofibular fascia.
The rotular crest is transverse and forms the anterior border of the proximal end of the tibiotarsus; the crest extends between the dorsal ends of the two cnemial crests and also extends medial to the inner cnemial crest.
The anteromedial intermuscular line is a slight ridge extending from the inner cnemial crest down the anteromedial surface of the tibiotarsus.
In several legs, the muscle also arises from the distal part of the posterior surface of the outer cnemial crest.
The outer cnemial crest is pronounced and directed anterolaterally on the anterolateral surface of the proximal end of the tibiotarsus.
The muscle arises fleshily from the lateral surface of the inner cnemial crest, from the rotular crest between the cnemial crests (deep to the attachment of M.
Anterior head: This arises by a narrow tendon (partly ossified) from the distal tip of the outer cnemial crest.
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