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ZOOLOGY 



SHOT. 



FIG. 992 bis. Apteryx aus trails. Skeleton. (From a specimen in the British Museum- 

 Natural History). 



ORDER 3. STRUTHIONES. 

 Including the true Ostriches (Struthio). 



ORDER 4. ^EPYORNITHES. 

 Including only the post-pliocene Madagascan geni 



ORDER 5. GASTORNI 



Including Gastwnis and other genera from the Eocene of Europe 



Division B. Carinatae, 



Neornithes in which, with the exception of some flightless species 

 the sternum has a keel, the coracoid and scapula are not ankylosed, 

 the acrocoracoid and usually the furcula are well developed, and the 

 -coraco-scapular angle is less than a right angle. There is a pygo- 



