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name rightly implies, is a process from the upper and back part of that element, con- 
joined with a corresponding projection from the part of the common epiphysis covering 
the mesometatarsal. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES. 
PLATE LXIV. 
Side view of the skeleton of the Dodo (Didus ineptus, Linn.), articulated and displayed 
in the Ornithological Gallery of the British Museum. 
PLATE LXV. 
Oblique back view of the same skeleton. 
Both these Plates are taken from photographs, corrected, as to perspective and 
better indication of details, from the subject. The lithographs are reduced to 4 the 
natural size. 
PLATE LXVI. 
Metatarsals of Pezophaps and Didus. 
1. Outer side view (Pezophaps solitaria, Str.). 
2. Back view (Pezophaps solitaria, Str.). 
Fig. 3. Front view (Pezophaps solitaria, Stv.). 
4. Inner side view (Pezophaps solitaria, Str.). 
Fig. 5. Outer side view (Pezophaps minor, Stvr.). 
Fig. 6. Back view (Pezophaps minor, Str.). 
Fig. 7. Front view (Pezophaps minor, Str.). 
Fig. 8. Outer side view of proximal end (Didus ineptus, Linn.). 
Fig. 9. Outer side view of distal end (Didus ineptus, Linn.). 
Fig. 10. Back view of proximal end (Didus ineptus, Linn.). 
Fig. 11. Back view of distal end (Didus ineptus, Linn.). 
Fig. 12. Proximal articular surfaces (Pezophaps minor, Stv.). 
Fig. 13. Proximal articular surfaces (Pezophaps solitaria, Str.). 
Fig. 14. Front view of proximal end (Didus ineptus, Linn.). 
Fig. 15. Front view of distal end (Didus ineptus, Linn. ). 
Fig. 16. Inner side view of proximal end (Didus ineptus, Linn.). 
Fig. 17. Inner side view of distal end (Didus ineptus, Linn.). 
All the figures are of the natural size. 
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