622 R. W. SHUFELDT 



The right scapula is entirely free, being in full view except the 

 parts covered by the os furculum and the left coracoid which are 

 in front of it, the former almost completely hiding its head. Some- 

 how, its distal head came to get in front of the ends of the vertebral 

 ribs of the left side (see Fig. i). 



With respect to the sternum, it is to be observed that its pair of 

 left xiphoidal processes, as well as the extreme posterior tip of the 

 carina, overlap the shaft of the right femur — ^the former entirely 

 and the latter as far as the inner condyle. 



Perfect in nearly all respects, the right pectoral limb is drawn 

 forward in front of the trunk skeleton, it being crossed by the cer- 

 vical vertebrae at the distal third of the humerus,^ which latter 

 has its palmar aspect exposed to view, while it is the anconal sides 

 of the bones of the antibrachium and pinion which are exposed — 

 the forearm and manus having twisted once round before settling 

 down. Curiously enough, the interosseous space between the 

 radius and ulna of this limb is filled in with dark, fossilized struc- 

 tures, as though the muscles of the forearm had become mineralized 

 instead of having been destroyed either by putrefaction or macera^ 

 tion. 



Both the ulnare and the radiale of the carpus are in sight, while 

 the skeleton of manus is perfect. 



With its longitudinal axis parallel to that of the fellow of the 

 opposite side, the left humerus appears to be free, with its radial 

 side exposed to view. 



Passing to the pelvic limbs, they are seen to be nearly perfect, 

 and are so, all to the patellae (which may have been small or not in 

 sight) and some of the pedal phalanges, which will be enumerated 

 farther on. Neither femur was freed at its pelvic articulation, the 

 head, in each case, apparently being still in the cotyloid cavity of 

 the pelvis of the respective sides, as in life, while all the articulations 

 among the long bones below are but slightly out of place in any 

 particular instance. 



^ Dr. Eastman evidently mistook this right pectoral limb for the left. That it 

 is the one of the right side is made almost certain by the fact that the cervical vertebrae 

 would naturally be between the two humeri, when the former was curved backward 

 and the latter drawn forward and upward, as is the case here. 



