CARINATjE 

 Charadriiformes 



Stone Plover. (Edicnemus scolopax. Plate XVII. 



The eyeground is reddish-brown, rather deeply pigmented near 

 the periphery and covered with orange-red dots that are very densely 

 packed on the upper half of the fundus. Below the optic entrance 

 are numerous choroidal vessels running parallel with and on either 

 side of the papilla. The macula is not clearly defined. It is situated 

 above the superior end of the disc on its inner or nasal side, and 

 about half the apparent length of the pecten from the upper end. 



The fundus coloring is slightly darker in the macular area, which 

 is surrounded by a reflex ring, pale gray in color, in the form of 

 very minute lines radiating from its margins. There are. also, a few 

 radiations near the fovea centralis. The papilla is white, oval in 

 shape, fringed all round with dense black pigment, and a few gray, 

 opaque nerve fibres are seen on either side of it. The pecten is very 

 large and projects well into the vitreous. It is of unusual shape, 

 rather narrow, but when examined from above looks as if it had been 

 compressed and flattened on both sides, with a narrow edge above. 



Gruiformes 

 Ivvor. Rhinochetus jubatus. Plate XVIII. 



The background is covered with a mass of minute dots that are 

 gray in the upper half of the fundus and orange below. The lower 

 sectors of the fundus are stippled with pigment. Choroidal vessels 

 are numerous and run in rather straight, vertical lines on both sides 

 of the optic disc. They are dull orange in color. The fovea is 

 shown towards the anterior or nasal half of the retina, and appears 

 as a round hole or crater-like depression, brown in color, which re- 

 flects a grayish sheen from its centre. A narrow gray circle or reflex 

 ring surrounds this pit. 



The optic disc has its central portion apparently stippled with 

 bright orange-red dots, while its margin is fringed with coarse, white 

 fibres, that are also studded with brown pigment dots, especially near 

 the outer border. 



The pecten is of the usual, deep chocolate-brown color, rather 

 narrow where it joins the disc but becoming much thicker and more 

 massive as it projects into the vitreous towards the lens. 



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