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1470. The skull of the Green Woodpecker (Pint* ciridu). 



Presented by H'illiam Home Clift, EMJ. 



1471. The skull of the Great Black Woodpecker (Pictu martitu). Hunterian. 



1472. The skull of a long and slender-billed Woodpecker (Pictu). Mtu. Brit. 



1473. The mandibles of the White-billed, or large American Woodpecker (Pic** 

 principalis). Presented by W. Bullock, Etq 



1474. The skull of the Buff-crested Woodpecker (Pictu melanoleuciu). Mut. Brit 



1475. The sternum, scapular arches and proximal ends of the humcri of a Wood- 

 pecker (Pictu viridis), showing the capsular ossicles of the shoulder-joint. 



Presented by Prof. Owen, F.S.S. 



Genus Cttculm (Cuckoos). 



1476. The skeleton of the Cuckoo (Cucultu canon*). 



Of the 19 vertebra between the skull and sacrum, the five posterior bear moveable rib*, 

 the last four pain of which unite with the sternum : there are also two pairs of sacral ribs. 

 The postfroutals are obsolete, and the mastoids very feebly developed : the interorbital space 

 is narrow, but the surface for the attachment of the upper beak is extended transversely by 

 the anchylosed lacrymals. The apes of the furculum joins the keel of the sternum. Tin- 

 outer trochlea of the metatarsus is directed outwards, but not so much backwards as in the 

 more typical Scaiuorrt. 



Miu. South 



1477. The skull of a Cuckoo (Cuculut pallioiattu, Lath.)? 



Hat. New Holland. 



Presented by William Home Clift, Etq. 



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