The syrinx or musical apparatus is, in most, well developed.
Syrinx and Atalanta were of their company, and Arethusa, who was changed into a fountain and ever pursued by Alpheus the river-god, till at last the two were united.
Just as the god overtook Syrinx and stretched out his arms to her, she vanished like a mist, and he found himself grasping a cluster of tall reeds.
A delicate bar of cartilage connecting the dorsal and ventral extremities of the first pair of bronchial cartilages in the syrinx of birds.
Observe, between the lyre and the banjo her little satchel of music-books, and below the syrinx a lamb and palm.
The instruments she could play were the organ, the guitar, the syrinx or panpipe, and the lyre, which she struck not with her fingers, but a plectrum represented beside it.
The Philadelphus coronarius is the shrub into which, according to Ovid, the nymph Syrinx was metamorphosed.
The Arcadian nymph Syrinxpursued by Pan, who was enamoured of her, fled to the banks of the river Ladon.
If the people have the syrinx (or Pandean pipe), ascertain the series of musical intervals yielded by its tubes.
She is entrusted by Juno to the care of Argus; Mercury having first related to him the transformation of the Nymph Syrinx into reeds, slays him, on which his eyes are placed by Juno in the tail of the peacock.
The usual pair of muscles, one on each side, runs to thissyrinx from above, and ceases there.
Telling us how fair tremblingSyrinx fled Arcadian Pan, with such a fearful dread.
The invention of the syrinx is attributed also to Pan.
As he strolled, he blew upon hissyrinx or Pandean pipes.
The love of Pan for Syrinx has already been mentioned, and his musical contest with Apollo.
In a poem dedicated to Leigh Hunt, by Keats, the following allusion to the story of Pan and Syrinx occurs: So did he feel who pulled the boughs aside, That we might look into a forest wide, .
The invention of the syrinx is attributed also to Mercury.
But indications of such a syrinx occur also in Pittidae, pigeons and gallinaceous birds (Gallidae), the last cases being clearly analogous.
Whilst the type of syrinx affords no help in classification, it is very different with its muscles.
This way of using the characters of the syrinx for the classification of the Passeriformes seems simple, but it took a long time to accomplish.
Syrinx muscles entirely lateral or attached to the dorsal or ventral corners of the bronchial semi-rings, (1) Subclamatores.
The syrinxis a modification of the lower part of the trachea and of the adjoining bronchi.
Syrinx muscles of either side attached to the dorsal and ventral corners of the rings.
Passeres diacromyodi, in which some of the syrinx muscles are attached to the dorsal, and some to the ventral ends, those ends being, so to say, equally treated.
Illustration: Meadow Lark] It must not be supposed, however, that the syrinxdoes not perform an important function in the production of avian melody.
Your syrinx discoveries seem to me of very uncommon importance.
What is now important to learn is this: Is the syrinx an original instrument in those regions whence the American and West Indian slave-elements were drawn?
Defn: A delicate bar of cartilage connecting the dorsal and ventral extremities of the first pair of bronchial cartilages in the syrinx of birds.
Defn: Pertaining both to the tracheal and bronchial tubes, or to their junction; -- said of the syrinx of certain birds.
Syrinx is a woodland creature nebulous and exquisite.
You expect thesyrinx to unfold the story of the reed in light song.
They are chansons sans paroles, sung to the syrinxin Sicilian glades.
VII What need I mourn, seeing Pan our sacred king Was of that nymph fair Syrinx coy disdained?
I am not Pan though I a shepherd be, Yet is my love as fair as Syrinx was.
How much more fair by so much more unkind, Than Syrinx coy, or Daphne, I her find!
In her, Hermes, pitiful for once, had given him a syrinx through which all sweetest and noblest music might have been breathed.
For a lyre outshone by my syrinx hast thou sold all thine empire to me!
It is also furnished with small muscles that act to expand or contract the tube and its inner fixtures, thus regulating the column of air forced through the syrinx when the bird calls or sings.
The muscles of the syrinx vary greatly in number and efficiency among birds; and many kinds classed as "singing birds" (Oscines) do not sing melodiously or tunefully because their music box is imperfectly supplied with the proper muscles.
When he put the reeds to his lips, they gave forth the softest and most plaintive tones, and Pan called them the syrinx in honor of the nymph.
The maidenSyrinx was a follower of Diana; and one day, as she was returning from the chase, she met Pan, who immediately fell in love with her beauty, and begged her to be his wife.
There seemed to be something in the very simple and honest question of John Burleson that arrested the attention of every man at the Syrinx Club who had heard it.
The aulos is also the earliest prototype of the organ, which, by gradual assimilation of the principles of syrinxand bag-pipe, reached the stage at which it became known as the Tyrrhenian aulos (Pollux iv.
There were three principal single pipes, the monaulos, the plagiaulos and the syrinx monocalamos.
