EXPLANATION OF PLATES. 767 



PLATE VII. BIRDS. Feet and heads as characters of certain families ; 

 almost all reduced, according to very different scales. 



Fig. 1. Eight foot of Carlo, p. 388. 



Fig. 2. Left foot of Larus, p. 390. 



Fig. 3. Right foot of Ibis, p. 402. 



Fig. 4. Middle claw of the right foot of Ardea, p. 407. 



Fig. 5. Right foot of Gattus, p. 426. 



Fig. 6. Left foot of Picus, p. 457. 



Fig. 7. Left foot of Paralcyon, p. 466. 



Fig. 8. Right foot of Cypselus, p. 535. 



Fig. 9. Right foot of Caprimulgus, p. 536. 



Fig. 10. Right foot of Haliaetus, p. 551. 



Fig. 11. Bill of Scythrops, p. 452. 



Fig. 12. Head of Phcenicopterus, p. 410. 



Fig. 13. Head of Paw (muticus), p. 424. 



Fig. 14. Head of CertMa, p. 506. 



Fig. 15. Head of Anthus, p. 518. 



Fig. 16. Head of Hirundo, p. 534. 



PLATES VIII. AND IX. MAMMALS. 



The figures are drawn from specimens in the Rijks-Museum. Figs. 3, 

 5, 6 and 7 of PI. IX. are of the natural size; the rest are reduced in the 

 proportion indicated for each figure. 



In all these figures a is the frontal bone ; b, the nasal bone ; c, the 

 upper jaw-bone; d, the malar bone; e, the temporal bone; f, the parietal 

 bone; g, the occipital bone; i, the intermaxillary bone; k, the lower 

 jaw. 



PLATE VIII. 



Fig. 1. Skull of Thylacinus Harriott J, p. 620. 



Fig. 2. Skull of Manis javanica f, p. 661. Here no malar bone is 



seen, p. 571. 

 Fig. 3. Skull of Ddphinus tnrsio , p. 628. 



