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Show 1867.] PROF. HUXLEY ON THE CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS. 433 The basipterygoid processes are as in the preceding genera; and the mandible has a strong recurved angular process. Fig. 15. Pmx.. Pmx r-Pfc Lateral and inferior views of a skull of Crax globicera, in the possession of W . K. Parker, Esq., F.R.S. In the side view S denotes the ossified septum. The strong recurved angular process of the mandible is well displayed; the vomer is lost, and is not represented in the inferior view; and the right palatine bone is removed to show the large maxillo-palatine plate of the maxillary (Mxp). PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1867, No. XXVIII. |