8 Dr. H. H. Giglioli on a Specimen 



are missing and have been replaced by very faithful imitations 

 in wood, evidently copied from those of the perfect mounted 

 skeleton iu the Paris Museum; these are the pectoral arches, 

 both icings, the patella, two distal phalanges in the right foot 

 and one in the left, in the hind limbs ; besidesj in the skull, the 

 maxillo-jugal rod is restored iu wood, whilst the palatines, 

 jiterygoids, the vomer, and the maxillary processes of the 

 nasals are missing. The first pair of cervical ribs and two 

 lumbar ribs, the left one of the first pair and the right one 

 of the second, are also missing. 



The right tarso-metatarsal had been fractured, and an 

 irregular anchylosis had been formed during life. The bones 

 are undoubtedly those of a fully adult, I would add of a very 

 old, bird. There are : 20 cervical vertebne, the last two 

 with movable ribs ; 5 dorsal vertebras, with ribs articulating 

 with the sternum through corresponding sternal ribs ; 1 9 

 lumbar-sacral vertebrae, the first two Avith rudimentary or 

 rather short ribs ; 8 caudal vertebrae, the last three anchy- 

 losed into one mass. The different bones correspond well 

 with the description furnished by A. Milne-Edwards and 

 Oustalet {op. cit. p. 65) . The height of the Florence skeleton, 

 as it stands, is 1*092 m. I shall now give the separate 

 measurements of the various bones, comparing them with 

 those of the Paris specimen recorded by Milne-Edwards and 

 Oustalet {op. cit. p. 66) : — 



D. afei; c? ad. D. ater. 



Floreuce. Paris. 



m. m. 



Leng-tli of vertebral column (followmg curves) . 1-040 1'190 



„ the cranium (occiput to apex of biU). 0'121 0'170 



„ „ (occiput to frontal suture) 0-0(55 O'OSO 



Greatest width of the cranium 0'058 O'OGt) 



Width of the iuterorbital space 0-020 0-029? 



„ „ maxillary region O-Otio 



„ „ premaxillary region, 1 centim. 



from apex 0-010 



Length of the lower jaw 0-111 0-1.34 ? 



„ ,, sternum (mesial line) 0-093 



., ,, sternum (Ibllowing curve) 0-120 0-138 



Width of the sternum above (straight line) . . 0-087 0-120 



