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end of the premaxillary process, but it is generally so. In 

 the schizorhinal skull it often appears, as in the typical 

 schizorhinal cranes and charadriiform birds, as if the outer 

 part of the nasal bone were a distinct bone ; for it joins the 



FIG. 81 SKULL OF Psophia. LATERAL VIEW. (AFTER BEDDARD.) 



inner lamina at an angle. In the typical holorhinal skull, 

 on the other hand, as, for example, in the Rallida?, the two 

 parts of the nasal come smoothly together, leaving the clear- 



FIG. 82. SKULL OF Lants. 

 DORSAL VIEW. (AFTER 

 GARROD.) 



FIG. 83. SKULL OF 

 DORSAL VIEW. 

 GABBOD.) 



(AFTER 



cut, ovally contoured nostril. It is not, however, always easy 

 to distinguish so clearly as can be done between Rallus and 

 Grus. Thus GTARROD admits the schizorhiny of Funt.rii(t> 



