9 Right lateral view of the skull of Cathartes a. septen- 

 trional i s , including the mandiible, which latter is detached. 

 Natural size, from an adult specimen 



10 Right lateral view of the skull of Neophron per c nop - 

 t e r u s ; mandible detached. Natural size. See remarks under 

 plate 5, figure 8 



1 1 Right lateral view of the skull of Buteo borealis 

 calurus' ; mandible detached. Natural size. The accessory 

 piece on the lacrimal bone is taken very black in the picture, and 

 must not be mistaken for a foramen in the interorbital septum, there 

 being but one central, elliptical aperture of the kind in that osseous 

 partition between the orbits. 



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