Gallus Bankiva of India. 27 
same side. Below, the ster- 
nal extremity of the cora- 
coid is moderately expand- 
ed, but offers nothing pecul- 
iar as to form. The shaft 
is long, straight and slightly 
compressed from before, 
backwards. For the ‘‘glen- 
oid cavity,” the coracoid 
offers about two-thirds of 
the articulatory surface ; the 
scapula furnishing the re- 
mainder. 
: Fig. 19. Anterior view of the last 
Either U r & 
the oe la I esents dorsal vertebree and thoracic ribs (in 
in its head or anterior end gy) of Gallus banhiva. 
the usual ornithic charac- pig. 20. Right lateral view of the 
ters common to so many of four codssified dorsal vertebree from 
the Carinatce in general, the same bird ; the vertebra shown 
and fo all trae Gallina in HE J® se Os etn 
particular ; for we find its spinal column and the pelvis. 
acromial process, when the 
bones of the arch are articulated in situ, extending for- 
wards to meet the superior end of the os furcula, and its 
glenoidal process completing, as usual, the cavity for the 
head of the humerus. Narrow, long and slightly curved, 
its blade in the skeleton reaches back to the pelvis or more, 
and is characterized by having a smooth, rounded outer 
margin, and a sharp upturned inner one, at least for, in 
the latter case, its posterior four-fifths. Its distal apex is 
somewhat dilated. Possibly the scapula may be pneumatic ; 
the coracoid always is in this species, but the os furcula 
hever so. 
