OSTEOLOGY OF BIRDS 



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Possibly in the eagle not so many ribs articulate with the costal 

 borders of the sternum, but the sterna themselves have exactly the 

 same characters. [Figures illustrating the osteology of the eagles are 



Fig. 48 Dorsal aspect of the pelvis of the 

 golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos), some- 

 what reduced, and drawn from photograph ; both 

 by the author 



pl. 5, fig. 6; pi. 7, fig. 12; pi. 10, fig. 20; pi. 11, fig. 25, 26; pi. 15, fig. 

 31 ; pl. 16, fig. 33.] 



Haliaetus leucocephalu s in its brain case and as 

 far forward as to include the quadrates below, agrees in its skull 

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