RALLI 



unlike that of the typical rails. As in Fill lea, the ilia are 

 widely separated by the fused neural spines of the dorsal 



FIG. 165. SKULL OF Podica. LATF.UAL VIEW. (AFTER BEDDARH.) 



vertebrae concerned ; but the ischia are broader and directed 

 more downwards (their position is, in fact, more primitive) 



FIG. 16(5 SKULL OF Heliornis. 

 VENTRAL AND LATERAL VIEWS. 

 (AFTER BEDDARD.) 



f 



I'"i<i. 107. SKULL OF 



VENTRAL VIEW. (AFTER 

 BEDDARD.) 



than in the rails, while the pubes are ankylosed at least at 

 one point with the ischia. 



There are a considerable number of extinct rails, many 

 of which were flightless, thus showing an exaggeration of a 



