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Plate VII. Bikds. Feet and heads as cliaractei-s of certain families ; 

 almost all reduced, according to very different scales. 



Fig. 1. Right foot of Garho, p. 388. 



Fig. 2. lisft foot of Larus, p. 390. 



Fig. 3. Right foot of Ihis, p. 402. 



Fig. 4. Middle claw of the right foot of Ardea, p. 407. 



Fig. 5. Right foot of Gallus, p. 426. 



Fig. 6. Left foot of Picv^, p. 457. 



Fig. 7. Left foot oi Paralcyon, p. 466. 



Fig. 8. Right foot of Cypselus, p. 535. 



Fig. 9. Right foot of Gaprimulgus, p. 536. 



Fig. 10. Right foot oi Hcdiaetus, p. 551. 



Fig. 11. Bill oiScythrops, p. 452. 



Fig. 12. Head of Phcenicopterus, p. 410. 



Fig. 13. Head oi Favo (jnuticus), p. 424. 



Fig. 14. Head of Certhia, p. 506. 



Fig. 15. Head of Anthus, p. 518. 



Fig. 16. Head oi Hirimdo, p. 534. 



Plates VTII. and IX. Mammals. 

 Skulls. 



The figures are drawn from specimens in the Rijks-Museimi. Figs. 3, 

 5, 6 and 7 of PI. IX. are of the natural size; the rest are reduced in the 

 proportion indicated for each figure. 



In all these figures a is the frontal bone; b, the nasal bone; c, the 

 upper jaw-bone; d, the malar bone; e, the temporal bone; f, the parietal 

 bone; g, the occipital bone; i, the intermaxillary bone; k, the lower 

 jaw. 



Plate VIII. 



Fig. 1. Skidl of Thylacinus Harrisii g, p. 620. 



Fig. 2. Skull of Manis javanica |, p. 661. Here no malar bone is 



seen, p. 571. 

 Fig. 3. Skull of Delphinus tursio |, p. 628. 



