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process, just described, does not reach the coracoid when the 

 bones are assembled in situ. The coracoid is considerably 

 dilated at its sternal end, wkh raised facet there on its posterior 

 aspect for sternal articulation. Its shaft is straight, not stout, 

 subcylindrical in form, and rather long. At its anterior end we 

 note a large glenoidal facet, and the usual inwardly-crooked, 

 tuberous head. A spiculiform, clavicular process, is to be seen 

 at some considerable distance below this, upon the mesial aspect 

 of the shaft. This is equally well-marked in C. cabanisi, a 

 species having a coracoid after the pattern of that bone in the 

 typical picivorous kingfishers. 



Our belted kingfisher has an os furcula of the broad, — very 

 broad U-shaped model — without a semblance of a hypoclei- 

 dium. The bone is slender below, but the clavicular limbs 

 gradually become broad, and much compressed laterally, as we 

 proceed in the direction of either head. So that, viewed as a 

 whole, either clavicular limb may be said to be almost blade-like, 

 with the free end. when articulated in situ, reaching back along 

 the antero-mesial aspect of the corresponding scapular for some 

 little distance. Ccryk cabanisi is peculiar in having a process 

 developed upon the superior margin of either clavicular head, 

 which, passing upwards and backwards, articulates with the 



The Appendicular Skeleton,- - fn the pectoral limb the humerus 



foramen being single, very open, and fills the entire base of the 

 fossa. Its surrounding margins in C. cabanisi are thickened, 

 and the fossa is markedly shallow. Proportionately, this bone is 

 very long, — being but two thirteenths shorter than the bones of 



find that in my above-quoted paper upon the osteology of that species I said that 

 "In the articulated skeleton (Army Medical Museum, Washington, Section Com- 



