130 PICO-PASSERES. 



C. Spinal feather-tract well defined on the neck, and forked on 



the lower (not on the upper) back. 



D. Basipterygoid processes absent. 



E. Cffica present. 



F. Oil-gland nude. 



G. Vomer absent or rudimentary. 



H. A narrow clavicular feather-tract on each side of the breast. 

 I. A small after-shaft. 



Family GALBULIDJE *. 



A. Palate desmognathous. 



B. Basipterygoid processes absent. 



C. Vomer absent. 



D. Ventral feather-tract without gular branch : a narrow 



clavicular tract on each side of the breast. 



E. Flexor longus hallucis first sending a tendon to the other 



plantar, then a second to fourth digit, after which (if 

 hallux present) splitting into two tendons, one leading to 

 the hallux, the other to the second digit. 



Genus GALBULA. 



Brisson, Ornith. iv. p. 80 (17G0). 



Galbula, sp. 



555. Skeleton (damaged). Stoirs, 1868. 



Family PICID^ f. 

 \_Cf. Seebohm, t, c. p, C : id. B. of Japanese Empire, p. 146.] 



A. Cffica absent. 



B. Oil-gland tufted. 



C. Palate schizognathous. 



D. Vomer slender, pointed, split, the lateral halves separate. 



(Saurognathous, Parker.) 



* C'f. Sharpe, Keview, p. 84. 



+ C'f. Parker, "On the Morphology of the Skull in the Woodpeckers 

 {Picidce) and Wrynecks {Ljngido'),'" Trans. Linn. Soc. 2nd ser. vol. i. pp. 1- 

 2-2, pis. 1-5 (187o). Paiker k Newton, Enc. P.rit. ill. p. 71G (1875). 

 Shufeldt, Auk, V. p. i'12. 



