306 PROFESSOR W. K. PARKER ON THE 
The epipterygoid process (¢.pg) is a mere auriform projection, as in the Crane (fig. 6) ; 
the shaft of the bone is carinate, and the palatine end bilobate. 
The palatines (figs. 2 & 5, pa) are higher, where they ascend to the pars plana, than 
broad ; they are elegantly bowed out behind, and, indeed, have altogether an undulating 
outline. Every curve and ridge and process corresponds with what is seen in Anthro- 
poides (fig. 6): in each case these bones diverge to join the pterygoids, arch outwards 
external to the interpalatine and ethmo-palatine spurs (¢.pa, ¢.pa), converge where they 
form a floor to the maxillo-palatine plates (ma.p), and are again gently arched outwards 
where they carry the alinasal cartilages (a/.); in front they have been affected by the 
intense ossification of the entire beak. 
The solid dentary angle of the premaxillary (d.px) has become completely fused with 
the outer part of the maxillary (ma); and its jugal process has coalesced largely with 
the jugal and quadrato-jugals (j, ¢,/); their line of junction can, however, be seen. ‘The 
maxillo-palatine plates (ma.p) are short, broad, and ear-shaped—quite normal for a Plu- 
vialine bird in general, or for a Gruine bird in particular; their distance from each 
other, as compared with those of the Crane (fig. 6), depends upon the size of the 
intervening vomer, with the bevelled shoulders of which they articulate, as in many of 
the lower types of South-American Passerine. 
The quadrate is that of a Crane; the upper and lower otic processes are divergent 
and very distinct, wholly unlike those of a Fowl, in which the prootic facet (lower 
head) is a mere patch of articular cartilage inside the single rounded head or upper 
process. 
The free fore-turned “ pedicle,” or orbital process, is true to the Gruine type, being 
broad-ended and ear-shaped. 
The mandible has some Gallinaceous characters, which might beguile a hasty 
observer: the ramus is high and has a large double fenestra; the symphysis is short 
and strong; and the posterior and internal angular processes are longer than is normal 
in a Pluvialine bird; they thus approach those of a Fowl. 
APPENDIX TO THE DESCRIPTION OF THE AGITHOGNATH &. 
1. THE SKULL oF ANTHROPOIDES STANLEYANUS. 
I have already described the palate of this species with that of Thinocorus, and need 
now only refer the reader again to the figures of these two types, so diverse in outward 
form, so distinct from each other in mere detail, and yet on the whole so incontestably 
related and alike in all essentials. 
The mere size and the breadth or narrowness of the various bones are things of but 
little importance in the presence of so much that is harmonious. 
