678 SHUFELDT—OSTEOLOGY OF THE STRIGES. (Dee. 7, 
Fic, 4. Basal view of the skull of Budo maximus (Japan) (No. 18227, U. S. 
Nat. Museum). gvzx., premaxillary; mx., maxillary; p/., palatine; mx. f., 
maxillo-palatine ; s. £f., secondary palatine process; 4, lacrymal; /, frontal ; 
v., vomer; £.f. pars plana; f7., pterygoid; d.p2., basipterygoid process; 
pf, post-frontal ; sg.f., squamosal process; g., quadate; o7.f., orbital pro- 
cess of quadrate; /m., foramen magnum. 
Turning to the mandible of this last-mentioned species, we find 
it to be of a broad V-shaped pattern, with rather a shallow sym- 
physis ; truncate angular ends, with large inturned processes there ; 
moderately high ramal sides, and always exhibiting a long, irregu- 
larly-shaped ramal vacuity near the middle of the same. This ramal 
vacuity is small in Strix pratincola. 
Passing to the trunk skeleton and the skeleton of the limbs, we 
have but little to add to what has already been pointed out in the 
foregoing paragraphs of this memoir. With respect to the pelvis, 
