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Group IV. Gymnohiiekbs. 



Palatal vacviity filled up 1)y ossllicatioii of floor of vestibiilnm and nasal septum ; 

 maxillo-palatines short hastate spurs underlying vomer. 



a. Post-orbital process and processus zygomaticus 

 squamosi well developed, the former low down and 

 separated from zygomatic process by a deep notch ; 

 mesiad of zygomatic process of squamosal is a long 

 slender style; palatines with long spinous processes; 

 nasal fossa partly closed by ossification ; anterior 

 narial aperture reduced to a small oval Gjjmnorhidce. 



j8. Post-orbital process large ; zygomatic process of 

 squamosal small, or obsolete ; the style mesiad 

 thereof feebly developed ; palatines with spinous 

 processes, short or obsolete; nasal fossa partly 

 closed ; narial apertvire small, circular, Ij'ing in front 

 of a larger oval vacuity .• Artamidce. 



y. Post-orbital process obsolete; zygomatic process of 



squamosal feebly developed ; nasal fossa open Vireolanidce. 



S. Post-orbital process large ; zygomatic process of squa- 

 mosal small ; nasal fossa closed ; narial aperture 

 small, oval in shape ; beak enormously inflated ; a 

 wide foramen, ventrad and distad of maxillo- 

 palatine processes, leading into the air-chambei', 

 v(fhich gives the inflated appearance to the beak ^rocharidce. 



t. Post-orbital process obsolete ; zygomatic process of 

 squamosal well developed ; palatines with very short 

 maxillo-palatal processes; nasal fossa small, but 

 co-extensive with narial apertui'e ; with an imperfect 

 nasal hinge Faradiseidm. 



References. 



(1) FiJRBRiNGER, M. — Untersuch. zur Morphol. u. Syst. des 



Vogel. II. Allgem. Tlieil, 1888. 



(2) Huxley, T. H.— " On the Classification of Birds." P. Z. S. 



1867. 



(3) Newton, A. — Art. " Ornithology." Ency. Brit, voh xviii., 



1884. 



(4) Parker, W. K.— " On ^githognathous Birds." Tr. Z. S. 



Part 1, vol. ix., 1877. 



(5) Pycraft, W. p. — " Contributions to the Osteology of Birds." 



Part VII., P. Z. S. 1905 ; Part YIII., P. Z. S. 1906. 



(6) Pycraft, W. P. — " Some points in the Morphology of the 



Palate of the ISTeognathse." Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxviii. 



(7) Sclater, p. L.— Cat." Birds Brit. Mus., vol. xiv., 1888. 



(8) Sharpe, R. B. — Hand-list of Birds, vol. iii., 1901. 



April 23, 1907. 



Dr. J. Rose Bradford, F.R.S., Yice- President, 

 in the Ohaii'. 



The Secretary submitted the following report on the additions 

 that had been made to the Society's Menagerie in March 1907 : — 



The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during 

 the month of March were 107 in number. Of these 66 were 



