No. 442-] OSTEOLOGY OF THE KINGFISHERS. 



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for in C. alcyou it may be said to be almost entirely aborted, 

 whereas in C. cabanisi the supero-anterior angle of the project- 

 ing keel rears into quite a respectable manubrium. 



The grooves for the coracoids do not meet in the median 



while we often find a pneumatic toramen present immediately in 

 front, upon the antero superior edge of the projecting sternal keel. 

 Both these kingfishers, too, seem to possess a small, circular 

 foramen of this character, in the median line, on the thorac ic 

 aspect of the body, just within the anterior coracoidal border. 

 Our belted kingfisher also has minute apertures of this nature at 

 the base of the interhamapophvsial pits along either costal 

 border.' 



Coming next to consider the bones of the shoulder girdle 

 (Fig. 3) we find the scapula in L. alcyou to be rather broad, of 

 nearly uniform width throughout, being obliquely truncated from 

 within outwards for its posterior third. It has a conspicuous 



