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in the loins, the surfaces which the bodies of the 

 vertebras opposed to one another, was somewhat 

 concave towards the centre, but in the cau- 

 dal vertebrae convex, as we see in the last coccy- 

 geal vertebrae of many quadrupeds. The true ribs 

 continued to the sternum, are six on each side ; and 

 the false five. The sternum is broad and flat, but 

 becomes narrower as it advances towards the false 

 ribs. Instead of sternal cartilages, we have here, 

 as in birds, sternal ribs, which are articulated with 

 the vertebral ribs by synchondrosis. In the ster- 

 num of the other animal of the same order, to which 

 I have alluded, there was a large oval foramen in 

 the middle, its greatest diameter between right and 

 left, and not far from its atlantal aspect. The scapu- 

 la, the only part we have yet procured of the atlantal 

 extremity, is without any spinous process, but the 

 base and superior costa meet at an angle that resem- 

 bles a process ; besides, a considerable process arises 

 from the superior costa opposite to the cervix, and 

 another in the same line close to the margin of the 

 glenoid cavity, and which* without any strained 

 analogy, might be named the Coracoid Proem. 



Organs of Sense. 



The brain was putrid ; — the eyes not so large as 

 the human ; and if the tongue was the organ of 

 taste, the food must have entered far into the mouth 



