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The palatines are distinctly different in the two birds. In 

 Carpococcyx the postero- external angles* of the palatines are 

 regularly and smoothly rounded off, as is shown in the 

 accompanying figure (fig. 22). The ridges dividing the 

 external or descending from the internal or ascending lamina 



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Skull of Carpococci/.v radiatus (nat. size) ; ventral aspect. 



gradually approach each other, and practically come into 

 contact for an extent occupying about the last half of the 

 palatine symphysis. In Eudynamis, on the other hand^ the 

 postero-external angles (see fig. 23, p. 209) are sharply cut 

 away, and the ventral ridges of the palatines do not come into 

 contact anywhere^ since the internal lamina of the bone is not 



* I use tlie nomenclature of Huxley (P. Z. S. 1867-, p. 42G). 



