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BAL^NOPTERID^. 



Avith a compressed slender process below the condyle. Tlie humerus 

 short, thick ; the forearm-bones broad, compressed, rather longer 

 (about oue-thii-d) than the humerus. 



Fiff. 21. 



Third cervical vertebra, lower jaw, blade- and breast-bone oi JSschnchtnis 

 robustus. (From di'awings by Professor Lilljeborg.) 



Professor Lilljeborg refers these bones to the genus Bala'noijtera, 

 because the blade-bone has a well- developed acromion and coracoid 

 process as in that genus, and because they are not developed in 

 Megajotera longhnana ; but the acromion is partially developed on 

 the blade-bone of M. LaJandii from the Cape, and there is no reason 

 why it may not be more developed in another species allied to it. 

 He says, "it is distinguished from B. longimana by the strongly 

 developed acromion and coracoid process on the blade-bone." 



I am induced to refer it to 3Iegcq)terina on account of the form of 



