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ZOOLOGY 



SKCT. 



Fig. 1062.— Apteryx australis. Skelutun. (Frma a specimen in the 

 ]3i-itish Wuscmii, Natural History.) 



Order 7. — Gastornithes. 

 Including Gastornis and other genera from tlie Eocene of Euioiie. 



Division B. — Carinatae. 



Neoi-nithes in which, with the exception of some Highticss species, 

 the sternum lias a keel, olie coracoid and scapula are not ankylosed, 

 theacrocoracoid and usually the furcula are well developed, and the 

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

 style around which the reetrices are arranged. The quadrate 

 usually articulates with the skull by two facets. The harbs of the 

 feathers have hooklets.^ 



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