1891.] 



DOLICHOTIS PATAGONICA. 



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traced them for the distance of one foot from the sphincter, hut I 

 do not know how much further tliey extended. These two ridges. 



Fig. 1. 



Palate of Bolichotis fatagonica. 

 a, processes upon palate representing palatal ridges. 



as shown in the accompanying drawing (woodcut, fig. 2), are at first 

 some distance apart (about | of an inch) ; they become gradually 

 closer until they are only separated by a little less than half an inch ; 

 they then run parallel. These ridges are clearly very like those of 

 Aulacodus swindernianus figured and described by Garrod' ; they are 



^ " On the Visceral Anatomy of the Ground Eat (Aulacodus swindernianus)" 

 P. Z. S. 1873, p. 786. 



