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UNDER the above heading in your issue of January 18, 1872, Dr. Elliot Coues describes the peculiar movements made by the bones of the wing of the bird in flexion and extension. It may interest some of your readers to know that those movements were minutely described and elaborately illustrated in a paper by Dr. J. Bell Pettigrew, communicated to the Linnean Society in June 1867, and published in vol. xxvi. of the Transactions of that body.
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COUGHTREY, M. Mechanism of Flexion and Extension in Birds' Wings. Nature 5, 244 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/005244a0
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