1885.] TaOCHfLIDE, CAPRIMULfilD.E, AND CYPSELTD.E. 899 



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Fig. E. 



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Fig. F. 



Fig. D. Under view of the skull of J'<myj);!27a sara^iZis (X2). (Drawn by the 



author from a specimen in his own cabinet.) 

 Fig. E. Under view of the anterior portion of the skull of Cy])selus ajms ( X 2). 



(after Huxley). 

 Fig. F. Under view of the skull of Tachycincta tkalassina ix2). (Drawn 



by the author.) 



Pmj^, premaxillary ; Mxp, maxillo-palatine ; Vo, vomer ; Na, nasal ; PI, 

 palatine ; Ft, pterygoid. In figure E the anterior excavated end of the vomer has 

 a crescentic shape, its angles terminating in free horns above tne palatine bones 

 by which they are concealed in tlie fignre. The * directs attention to the 

 inferior portions of the antorbitals. They have a very peculiar form in C. (qitis. 

 as shown in fig. E. 



