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joints are not subequal,but the second is decidedly the longest. 

 I take this opportunity of mentioning these points as 

 it appears to me * that, although no doubt trifling, they are 

 of some classificatory value from their constancy. Further- 

 more, as in Milne-Ed wards's f illustration the toes are left 

 unshaded and are not figured separately, it seems probable 

 that his skeleton was so far defective. 



Ri°rht foot of Photodilus badius. Nat. size. 



The peculiarity in the bones of the feet of Photodilus 

 concerns the three proximal phalanges of the fourth digit ; 

 the first two of these are fused, and the next following is of 

 about half the size of the compound bone, thus showing that 

 the size of the separate bones is equal, as in other Striges. 



Ribs. — M. Milne-Edwards states {op. cit. p. 190) that " the 



* Cf. Ibis, 1888, p. 339. 

 t Nouv. Arch. &c, he. cit. pi. 4. 



