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those of the most typical Crow. The cranium, however, 

 diflFered from that of every known species of that genus, so 

 that ]Mr. Forbes had found it necessary to establish a new 

 genus, PaJiEOcai'ax, for its reception. 



There were present minute rudiments of the basipterygoid 

 processes on the parasphenoid. The vomer was broad, flat, 

 three-pointed in front. The maxillaries were anchylosed to 

 the premaxillaries; the latter were anchylosed to the expanded 

 ossified base of the nasal septum. The ossified mesethraoid 

 stretched backward and was lodged in the concavity of the 

 upper surface of the vomer, so that it presented a form in- 

 termediate between the complete segithognathous Coraco- 

 morphse, such as Co7'vus, and the compound segithognathous 

 forms^ such as Gymnorhina, in which desmognathism was 

 superadded by '' ankylosis of the inner edge of the maxil- 

 laries with a highly ossified alinasal wall and nasal septum " 

 (^Parker). 



The next Meeting will take place on January 18th, 1893, 

 at the Restaurant Frascati (Krasnopolsky), 32 Oxford 

 Street, W. 



(Signed) 



P. L. SCLATER, R. BOWDLER ShaRPE, HoWARD SaUNDERS, 



Chairman. Editor. Sec. ^' Treas. 



