Anatomic and topographic features of cranial bones of skeleton head of Japanese quail

The research objective was studying anatomic and topographical features of bones of brain department of the skeleton of the head of a Japanese quail. As objects the corpses of adult Japanese quails served (n = 6). Using the methods of boiling down and maceration 6 osteological preparations which were also studied by means of a digital X-ray analysis were made and investigated. Occipital bone consists of four bones fused together: unpaired - the main occipital and supra occipital, as well as the outer pair of the occipital, which are involved in the formation of a large occipital foramen. In quails, the occipital foramen is rounded triangular in shape. They participate in formation of a big occipital opening which at a quail has a rounded triangular form. Wedge-shaped bone in quail consists of four bones: the main wedge-shaped, paired side wedge-shaped and near-shaped, merging into a single bone. Temporal bone is coupled, consists of scal and stony bone, participates in the formation of lateral wall of middle and posterior cranial fossae and serves as a receptacle of the middle and inner ear...