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1305. The skull of the White Stork (Ciconia alba). Purchased. 



Subgenus Argala (Bare-necked Storks). 



1306. The skeleton of the Indian Adjutant, or Gigantic Stork (Ciconia Argala). 



The beak is remarkable for its size and strength, but is straight and conical, (is in the true 

 Storks : the apex of the furculum rests upon the anterior end of the sternum. The nostrils 

 are small, elliptical, and perforated near the upper part of the base of the mandible. The 

 atlas and axis are wanting in the present skeleton. The last six of the free vertebrae of the 

 trunk support ribs, of which the first pair are very short : those of the second pair do not 

 reach the sternum ; the succeeding four pairs articulate with the sternum by bony hsemapo- 

 physes ; the last (seventh) pair of ribs are attached to the sacrum, and also articulate with 

 the sternum by haemapophyses. There are 7 caudal vertebrse. 



Presented by Dr. Henderson. 



1307. The skull of the Gigantic Stork (Ciconia Argala). 



Presented by Sir Everard Home, Bart., F.R.S. 



1308. The right and left metacarpals or pinion-bones of the Gigantic Stork (Ciconia 

 Argald). Hunterian. 



1309. The skeleton of the African Adjutant, or Marabou (Ciconia Marabou}. 



It scarcely differs from the Asiatic species, except slightly in size. There are 21 vertebrse 

 between the skull and sacrum, of which the last five support ribs : of these the first pair are 

 free, the rest articulating with the sternum by bony hsemapophyses ; the last (sixth) pair of ribs 

 are attached to the sacrum, and also to the sternum. There are 7 caudal vertebrse. The differ- 

 ence in the costal formula between this skeleton and that of the Ciconia Argala depends only 

 on the short pleurapophyses of the sixteenth vertebra having become anchylosed in the pre- 

 sent specimen. 



Purchased. 



Genus Mycteria. 



1310. The skull of the Jabiru, or American Stork (Mycteria americand). 



Hunterian. 



