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nal finger (pp. 329—333). The bones of the limbs of the right 

 side are omitted in this figure. 



Fig. 2. Sternum and clavicles of the same bird seen from before ; c, c, 

 o, o, L, as in the preceding figure. 



Fig. 3. Skull of the ostrich, StrutJdo camelus, p. 417, from the side and 

 reduced j a, frontal bone ; h, nasal bones ; c, superior maxillary 

 bone; d, malar bone (d', quadrato-jugale, squamosal Ow.); e, 

 quadrate bone (tympanic Ow.); e, temporal bone (mastoid 

 Ow.); f, parietal; g, g, occipital bone; g', unpaired upper 

 piece {pars occipitalis), g, lateral occipital (ex-occipital Ow.); 

 i, intermaxillary bone; k, lower jaw composed of different 

 bones {u, v, x, y, compare the skull of crocodile, PI. iv) ; /, sphe- 

 noid bone; \ foramen opticuvi; m, anterior ala (orbito-sphe- 

 noid Ow.). 



Fig. 4. Connexion of the quadrate bone with the as or}idideum on the 

 inferior surface of the skull, in Crax glohicera. Compare 

 pp. 333, 334; I, sphenoid bone; o, os omdideum ; />, palate- 

 bone; q, q, quadrate bone. 



Fig. 5. A hen's egg that has been brooded about 24 hours, seen from 

 above, but so that the section only of the shell and its mem- 

 brane is represented ; from V. Baeb Ueber Entwickelungsgesch. 

 der Thiere, i. Ta£ iii. fig. 3; a, the shell; h, the shell-mem- 

 brane ; c, boundary between the external and middle albumen ; 

 c, ligamentum alhuminis of Tredern ; d, boundary between the 

 middle and internal albumen; e, e, chalazoe ; g, boundary of 

 the germ-membrane (plastoderma^ ; g, h, the vitelline circle; 

 h, boundary of the foetal area; A, i, the vascular area; i, the 

 space in which the embryo lies; this last is seen as a transverse 

 streak in the middle of the space, pp. 351, 352. 



Fig. 6. Eye of the swan, horizontal section, after D. W. Soemmerring, 

 a, optic nerve; h, sclerotic; c, cornea; d, crystalline lens; e, 

 pecten, pp. 365 — 367. 



Fig. 7. Tongue of Rhamphastos (lingua 2>ennacea) with the tongue- 

 bone reduced, p. 446. 



Fig. 8. Tongue-bone o( Pavo cristatits, reduced, compare p.»364. 



