MERurinyi;. 



11)3 



The Australian Roller. 



Hah. Australia and the Molucca Islands. 



823. Natural skeleton : mounted (feet defective, and pollux of 



left wing wanting). 0. 0. 1483. Hiinterian. 



824. Sternum of female, with shoulder-oinllc From Clarence 



River, N. S. Wales. Presented />// Dr. K. P. Ramsay. 



825. Sternum of male, with shoulder-girdle. Richmond River, 



N. S. W. [E. P. Ramsay). S. S. 1358. 



Presented hij P. L. Sdafer, Esq., F.R.S. 



Eurystomus crassirostris. 



Eurystomus crassirostris, Sciater, Proc. Zool. Soe. 18'>9, p. 121. 



The Stout-billed Roller. 



Ila(>. Papuan Islands. 



825 a. Sternum, with shoulder-girdle. S. S. 2437. 



Presented hy P. L. Sclater, Ps<j., F.L'.S. 



Family MEROPIDJ^:. 



A. Palate desmognathous. 



B. Basipterygoid i)roeesses absent. 



C. Episterna] process forked and perforated to receive the sternal 



ends of the coracoids. 



Fio-. 4(;. 



I>ateral view of sterna of Mcrops persicus and AnfJiacoceros convcrvs, to sliow 

 the perforation or notch of the episterual process ; it lies immediatel}' in 

 front (above in figure) of tlie groove for the coracoid. 



D. Sternum, with four notches on posterior margin. 



E. Hallux present and connected with the Jiexor perforans diyi- 



forum, and not with the /fi'-vor lonyus hallucis. 



F. Spinal feather-tract well dclin('(l on tlic neck, lint not forked 



on the back. 

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