8TRUTII10NIDJE. 



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gesting a division between a prccoracoidal and true coracoidal 

 moiety. The cervical vertcbra3 are elongated. 

 The male is much larger than the female. 



Genus STRUTHIO, Brisson '. 

 Syn. i>frttfJtiolit/iic--^, Uraiidt -. 



The only geuus of the family; the so-called Sinithiolithus, pro- 

 posed on the evidence of a fossil egg, being apparently not separable. 



Struthio asiaticus, Milne-Edwards '. 



Syn. Struthio pahcindicus, Falconer ' (MS.). 



Meyaloscelornis sivalensis, Lydeklcer ' {in parte). 



Apparently closely allied to the existing S. camelus, but with re- 

 latively shorter and stouter cervical vertebra"', and somewhat thicker 

 metacarpals. 



JIab. India. 



Thefolhwinfi specimens, which include the types, were obtained from 

 the Pliocene of tlie Siwalil- Hills. 



23105. A specimen comprising nine cervical vertebroe in natural 

 (i''(r/.) juxtaposition, some imperfect bones of the wing, and the 

 distal portion of the right tarso-metatarsus, together with 

 the greater portion of the proximal phalangeal of the third 

 digit in apposition with the latter. The mass also includes 

 the atlas and two later cervical vertebriB and an incisor of 

 an antelope. Described by Davies in the ' Geol. Mag.' 

 decad. ii. vol. vii. pi. 1 9, with a figure of the tarso-meta- 

 tarsus and phalangeal in pi. ii. fig. 1 ; also described, with 

 a figure of the same bones, by the present writer in 

 the ' Palpeontologia Indica,' ser. 10, vol. ii. p. 144, pi. xv. 

 fig. 3. The wing-bones comprise the radius and ulna, the 

 metacarpus, and the proximal phalangeal of the second 

 digit. The tarso-metatarstis cannot be distinguished from 

 the corresponding bone of S. camelus. 



Presented by Colonel Colvin, 1848. 



39732. The imperfect distal portion of the left tibio-tarsus. Noticed 

 (Fiy). by Davies, oj). cit. p. 21, and figured by the writer, op. cit. 



' Ornithologie, vol. v. p. 3 (1700). 



^ Bull. Ac. Imp. St. POteisboiirg, vol. xviii. p. 161 (1873). 



" Oiscaux Fossiles de la France, vol. ii. p. 587 (1869-71). 



* See ' Falconer's Pa]«ontological Memoirs,' sol. i. p. xii (1S6S). 



° Kec. Geol. Surv. lud. vol. xii. p. 56 (1879). 



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