^Oi 



^Ir. P. R. Lowe on the 



complete in front and below as it is above and behind {cf. 

 text-figures 12, A, C, D). 



In the Chatham Island Snipe, on the other hand — and this 

 is perhaps its most interesting feature, — the descending 

 process of the lacrymal after fusing with the extero-anterior 

 surface of the antorbital plate is abruptly arrested in its 



Text-figure 12. 



5^n. 



C Vert. / 5'-' 71, ^ 



Cj/m.c. 



Lateral view of tlie skulls of: — A. Lymnocryptes gallinida ; 

 B. Ccenocorypha pusilla; C. Gallinago gnUinayo; L), Scolopax rusticoln. 



fen., fenestra ; lacr., lacrymal ; na.yr., nasal groove ; n.p., nasal process ; 

 ■op./., optic foramen; q-j.h., quadratoj iigal bar; q., quadrate; p.orb.p., 

 postorbital processes ; si/./j., squamosal process; <y?«;j.c., tympanic cavity ; 

 •oi/i «., foramen of oth nerve. 



course, and neither it nor the antorbital plate is continued 

 downwards and backwards to join witii the squamosal 

 processes. As a result, this antero-inferior portion of the 

 orbital rim is dejicient. 



We therefore get a very similar condition of things 

 to that which obtains in the rest of the Waders, in 



