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Genus Strix. 



1607. The skull of a Barn-Owl (Strix Jlammea), with the bones partially separated 

 and artificially articulated together. 



The basioccipital, exoccipitals, and superoccipital, the basisphenoid, alisphenoid, and pre- 

 sphenoid are anchylosed together, being usually the first parts of the cranium that coalesce 

 in birds. The Numbers upon these and the other separated bones accord with those in the 

 TABLE OF SYNONYMS. The frontals are unusually prominent and convex. The vomer 

 seems not to have been ossified. The tympanic is articulated to the mastoid by two small 

 condyles, the posterior one supported on the pedicle, below the root of which is the pneu- 

 matic foramen. The surangular, angular, and articular are partially anchylosed together ; 



the dentary and splenial pieces remain distinct. 



Purchased. 



The following are parts of the same disarticulated skeleton of an Owl. Hunterian. 



1608. The cranium and lower jaw. 



1609. The sternum, pelvis, four ribs, and four vertebra? of the same. 



1610. The furculum. 



1611. The right coracoid and scapula. 



1612. The left coracoid and scapula. 



1613. The right humerus. 



1614. The right ulna. 



1615. The right radius. 



1616. The right metacarpus. 



1617. The left humerus. 



1618. The left ulna and radius. 



