ROLE OF THE BONES OF THE WING AND PELVIC LIMB OF QUAILS IN ITS MODE OF LOCOMOTION

The bones of the wing and pelvic limb of twenty quails brought from Elarish city at the north coast of Egypt on the Mediterranean sea was submited to this study.
The main morphological features as well as the length and weight of each bones and its percentages were recorded.
The results showed that the tibiotarsus and femur which belong to the pelvic limb were the longest and heaviest of all studied bones. Also it was found that each bone of the pelvic limb was longer and heavier than the corresponding one of the wing. Moreover, the percent age of the weight of the pelvic limb to the total weight of the skelton was 28.7% while that of the wing is 18.9%.
Comparing the obtained data with that of the other birds in the avila ble literature revealed that it mostly agreed with the walking birds, although the parents of the studied species of quail are migratory ones.