PHASIANIDiE. 



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The following specimens were obtained from tJie Pleistocene of the 

 Cavern of Bruniquel, near Montauhan (Tarn-et-Garonne), 

 France ; and were purchased in 1864. 



38375. The right coracoid, with the hyosteriial angle imperfect. 

 Shows the shallow and ill-defined groove for the pectoralis 

 minor. 



38372 a. The right humerus. Accords with the specimen from a 

 French cavern figured hy Milne-Edwards in his ' Oiseaux 

 Fossiles de la Prance,' pi. cxxxiv. figs. 10, 11. 



39348. The left humerus, with the proximal extremity imperfect. 



39348 a. The right humerus, wanting the distal portion, and with 

 the proximal extremity imperfect. 



38376 a. Three specimens of the metacarpus probably referable to 

 this species. 



38373. A left femur belonging either to a male of the present or to 

 a female of the preceding species. The length is 0,057. 



Family PHASIANID^. 



The tarso-metatarsus is much larger than in the Tetraonidce^ and 

 in males is usually provided with one or two spurs. 



Pig-. 32. 



Francolinus picfiis. — Anterior and posterior aspects of the left tarso-metatarsua 

 of a female ; from the cavern-deposits of Madras. \. (From the ' Palaeon- 

 tologia Indica.') 



