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bone, occupying the upper surface of the scapular process, and is 

 continuous with the shallow glenoidal facet that is seen on the outer 

 aspect. The coracoids terminate superiorly in rounded heads that 

 are flattened from side to side, and present upon their mesial aspects 

 smooth surfaces for the broad clavicular limbs. The blades of the 



Fig. 16" Right coracoid of Gymnogyp 

 viewed from in front. Life size 



scapulae are short and broad, being curved outward, with rounded 

 points ; they never reach back nearly so far as the pelvis, but gen- 

 erally overlap the last pair of dorsal ribs. The heads of these 

 bones are flattened from above downward, curled up on their inner 

 aspects, so as to afford surface to articulate with the points of the 

 clavicular ends, while externally they present raised elliptical facets 



