No. 442.] OSTEOLOGY OF THE KINGFISHERS. 



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tion of the opposed surfaces of the bones composing the outer 

 and middle toes, show the effect of their being so long strapped 

 together in a common podothecal sheath, in the evident compres- 

 sion of the ridges and elevations usually found on these phalangeal 

 bones in avian feet where the digits are free. 



OF THE GENUS CERYLE OF TH 

 KINGFISHERS 



1. Superior mandible once and a half as long again as the 

 cranium ; tapering and of a pyramidal form, flat upon its 



2. Septum narium complete. 



3. Cranio-facial hinge quite movable (this is especially the 

 case in the dried skull, after the quadrate and lacrymals 



have been removed). 

 4. Lacrymal large, with a superior and inferior portion. 



