MOXOTKEMATA. 
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British Museum collection, presents a similar condition of 
the fur, and is of small size. The 0. fuscus of P6ron land 
Lesueur, and the 0 . crisp us of Macgillivray, aro large speci¬ 
mens, in which the fur is comparatively crisp, and of dull 
colouring. Mr. Macgillivray, it will he found 1 , was himself 
subsequently of opinion, that his two species, O. crispus and 
0. Utvis, were mero varieties of the O. paradoxus. 
The head, feet, chest, bones, pelvis, &c. of the Oraitho- 
rliynchus are figured in Plate 2. 
Fio. 1. The bead viewed from above j half the natural size. 
11 2. The same viewed from beneath. 
(The remaining figures are of the natural size.) 
" 3. The hind foot, viewed from beneath : u, the inner toe; b, the spur. 
•• 4. The fore foot, viewed from aboYC: c, a, a, a, semi-cartilaginous 
appendages 3 , springing from the under side of the apical portion 
of the toes, to support the membrane which fills up their inter¬ 
spaces. 
“ b. The chest and shoulder bones: a, a, the blade bones (tcapute ); 
b, b , the coracoids; c, c, the epicoracolds; d, d, the clavicles; 
e, the episternum; e*, e* t lateral branches of the episternum; 
f, the foremost of the bones of the sternum, called the manubrium 
aterni; this is followed by three other sternal bones, p, which arc 
small and narrow ; A, the humerus. 
41 6. The pelvis, shewing the position of the marsupial bones, a, a. 
• See Memoirs of the Wernerian Society, vol. vi. p. 132. 
2 'fhese appendages appear to be an extraordinary development of the fleshy 
pads which arc observable on the under side of the apical portion of the toes 
in very many quadrupeds. 
