of the Radiated Fi'uit-Cuckoo. 



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aborted posteriorly, as it is iu Carjjococcyx. This difference 

 between the two skulls is very pronounced. 



The jugal arch in Carpococcyx passes perfectly straight to 

 the maxilla ; in Eudynamis it is bowed inwards at its 

 junction with the latter bone. In neither genus are the 

 maxillo-palatines fused for their whole extent, as they are in 

 Scythrops, but Eudynamis shows a tendency in the direction 

 of a more thorough desmognathism than is exhibited by 

 Caiyococcyx. The accompanying figure (fig. 23) shows a 

 splint of bone running forward from the antero-internal 



Fig. 23. 



Skull of Evdynamis (nat. size), ventral aspect. 



A, OS uncinatum ; P, palatine. 



(From P. Z. S. 1898, p. 48.) 



angle of the body of the palatine, which seems to foreshadow, 

 or to be the remains of, a more massive palate, such as is 

 possessed by Scythrops. 



Viewed laterally, the nares of Carpococcyx, like those of 

 Eudynamis and the majority of Cuckoos, are seen to be 

 imperforate and single'^. 



The ectethmoids are swollen rounded bones, contrasting 

 in their appearance with the flattened ectethmoids of Eudy- 

 namis. The lacrymals are large, with a descending process 



* They are divided into two iu Phoenicophaes, 

 SER. VIII. VOL. I. P 



