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which rendered a lapse of judgment easy, it was thought for 

 a time that the crushed coracoid of the specimen collected in' 

 1902 was a heavy first rib. 



As a result of this misconception, together with the uncer- 

 tainty regarding the carapace that had long existed in the 

 mind of every student of the Testudinata, I published the 



Fig. 9. 



Figure 9. — Archelonischyros, x 1/36. Ventral view of the type witli plastron 

 removed. Compare legends of the two preceding figures. Eecall that as 

 originally collected the vertebral column from the fourth cervical on was 

 found normally articulated and complete all the way to the smaller caudals, 

 a few of which were missing. Observe that the coracoids pass all the way 

 back to the ectopubes. Note in the hind paddle the large size of the tibiale 

 and fibulare, and the pisiformoid development or functioning of the fifth 

 carpal. 



erroneous figure of my paper of 1903. 14 But why Dr. Hay has 

 reproduced this in his volume/ 7 I fail to understand, as I spe- 

 cifically declared the figure to be a mistaken one several years 

 ago. I can only regret that the original figure of A. ischyros 6 

 was not used, and still more deplore the fact that the labor of 

 preparation on the type was not sufficiently advanced to permit 



