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coccygeal or caudal seven. The ribs are eight, very slender, 

 depressed, the first incomplete, and, as well as the last, without 

 the posterior process, which is narrow and rather long. The sca- 

 pula, ^ J, is linear and slightly decurved ; thefarcula, i, narrow, 

 hyoid, or resembling the letter U, with the curve rounded, and 

 having a roundish or oblong thin plate projecting backwards. 

 The coracoid bones, h h^ are rather slender, and diverge little. 

 The sternum, a h ff^ is of moderate length, broad, narrower 

 anteriorly, its posterior margin, ff, broad, more or less curved, 

 with two deep notches, g g^ its lower outline, a e, slightly 

 curved, its anterior, a b, concave ; the median process, b, long 

 and broadly furcate ; the lateral anterior or costal processes, 



Fig. 115. Fig. 116. 



c c, large. The humerus is short ; the cubital bones a fourth 

 longer ; the rest of the same length as the cubitus, consisting 

 of two carpal bones, one large metacarpal, having an oblong 

 incomplete space, a slender pollical, and three digital, two 

 united bones forming the first phalanx. The pelvis is of mo- 

 derate size ; the iliac bones oblong and anteriorly rounded ; the 

 pubic linear, slightly recurved, with an oblong open space be- 

 tween them and the rest. The femur is short, the tibia nearly 

 a third longer, with a slender incomplete fibula, extending 

 only one-third down. The tarsal bone is trigonal, and shorter 



