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Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Iliinaiitopiis, with its ])elvic limb of twenty-nine centimeters in 

 length, has a tlljula that descends but one fourth the distance do\\'n the 

 til)ial shaft. 



'V\\(t patella in Nuiiicnius is, com])aratively, very small, and of an 

 odd, irregular shai)e. Oyster-catchers have this sesamoid only repre- 



Fk;. 23. Parts of Rh;ht Pelvic Limk of Numenius Loncurostris, Natural 

 size, till, anterior view of the tarso-metatarsus ; tin', a view of the surface of its prox- 

 imal extremity at right angles to the shaft ; ///, the hyjiotarsus ; tin" , a view of the 

 surfaces of the distal extremity of tarso-metatarsus at right angles to the shaft, showing 

 the trochlea for the podal digits ; T, upper extremity of the tibia ; ']'\ view of its 

 proximal surface at right angles to the shatt ; /% anterior aspect of the femur. 



sented in a diminutive cartilaginous nodule, and it is absent in other 

 shore-birds. It is small in Avocets and Willets. 



The tarso-iiictatarsus of iVii/iicnii/s is but a little over a centimeter 

 shorter than its tibio-tarsus. Upon the superior surface of its jjroxi- 

 mal extremity the articular facets for the tibial condyles are deeply 



