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Zoological Society : — 



" Unfortunately the tympanic bones are wanting in both, and I 

 can tell you nothing of them. But the zygomatic bone is preserved, 

 and is of the same form as that figured in Cuvier's work, figs. 1 

 and 3, but somewhat smaller than the latter figure. 



"The seven cervical vertebrae are free, separate from each other, 

 and the body of every one has the epiphyses on each side, the specimen 

 being that of a young individual. But in the atlas and front side of the 

 axis these epiphyses do not exist. I send you drawings of the first 

 (fig. 2), the second (fig. 3), the fourth (fig. 4), and the sixth (fig. 5) 



Second cervical vertebra. 



vertebrae ; the third exactly resembles the fourth, and the fifth 

 only differs in a small opening in the lateral arc, indicated in my 

 drawing of the fourth, on the left side. The seventh has no inferior 



Fourth cervical vertebra. 



