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it is well seen in the embryo, and is not quite obscured in the 
adult; in the embryo it is relatively as long as in any bird among 
the Carinate. 
One “last word;” all the Coracomorphe have a peculiar bony 
bridge over the top of the interosseous space between the 
second and third metacarpals; it is fused with both those 
bones. So it is in the Picide, Ramphastide and most of the 
Alcedinide, in which it is unusnally large; in the Gallinacee 
generally it is almost as large, but does not unite with the third 
metacarpal. The rudiment of this part is much larger in 
Humming-birds than in Swifts, which agree with the Goatsuckers 
in having this intercalary element aborted. 
I have put these facts down on paper; if any one can explain 
them it were act of charity to us all to show their meaning. 
Prof. Garrod did not say the last word either about Swifts and 
Swallows, or about any member of this bewildering class of 
vertebrates. 
NOTES ON A VOYAGE TO THE GREENLAND SEA 
IN 1888.* 
By Ropert Gray. 
(Concluded from p. 51.) 
Juty 5.—Lat. 74° 40’, long. 12° W. Water clear and blue; 
_ temperature, 32°. From a Narwhal shot to-day I removed a 
foetus measuring five feet in length. In the stomach of the 
mother a few worm-like Entozoa were present (Ascaris simplex, 
_ Rudolphi), while the pharyngeal openings of the Eustachian tubes 
formed the habitat of another parasitic form, much smaller in 
* In the clause relating to the presence of valves in the throat and vagina 
of Mysticetus the sentence ‘‘ A somewhat similar but larger structure .. .” 
_ (page 43, line 29) has undergone derangement, and instead of reading as in 
the text shouldbe readas follows :—‘‘A somewhat similar but larger structure 
attached to the opening of the vagina, evidently acted in the same way; as 
_ also did another with regard to the opening of the throat, which on a previous 
occasion I examined attached to the base of the tongue, but which probably 
represents the epiglottis.” Again, in the footnote, page 48, for ‘Scotch 
writers ” read ‘* Scotch whalers.” 
