The structure and classification of birds

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Identifier: cu31924022531309 (find matches)
Title: The structure and classification of birds
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Beddard, Frank E. (Frank Evers), 1858-1925
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: London, New York (etc.) Longmans, Green, and co.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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early comes intocontact with the ectethmoid. The maxillo-palatines arecomparatively large and swollen bones ; as in Gariamathese bones are convex on the outer side, and not concave—as in Grus. There are no occipital foramina. It may beremarked that the holorhinal nostrils of this bird show nosuch approach to schizorhiny as is displayed by Ghunga. From the anterior part of the maxillo-palatines, on alevel with a point just in front of the commencement of thebony nostrils, a stoutish knob of bone ^ projects inwards oneither side. Of this there are traces in the cranes, parti-cularly in Tetrapteryx. If these processes were to beincreased in size and to meet a bony internasal septum, we F. E. Beddakd, On the Structure of Psophia, &o., P. Z. S. 1890, p. 329. Duly referred to by Pakkek, Osteology of the Kagu, Tr. Z. 8. vi. p. 507. 376 STRUCTUKE AND CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS should have the desmognathous skull of the Americanvultures. Psophia has seventeen cervical vertebrm, of which the
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last bears a rudimentary rib. Five dorsal vertebrce areankylosed, there being two free ones behind. The sternum GRUES 377 (fig. 184) is entire and unnotched; eight ribs articulatewith it. The atlas is notched for the odontoid process. Fromthe fourteenth cervical vertebra to the third dorsal there areblade-like median hypapophyses. In front of the fourteenththe catapophyses nearly enclose a canal; they get furtherapart and die av?ay anteriorly. The foUovying table shovs^sthe number and character of the hypapophyses in variousGrues :— - Chunga Cariama Paophia Rliinoclietus Grus Balearica Catapophyses Last on Oil 012 013 Oil 015 016 Hypapophyses C12-D1 013-Dl 014-D3 012-D3 016-019 017-019 The family Eurypygidse contains but one genus andspecies, Eurypyga helias, native of South America. It hasan oil gland, which is generally nude but occasionally tufted,and twelve rectrices. Eurypyga, like Bhinochetus andMesites, has powder-down patches, but their aiTangement isvery different from thos

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