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Show 886 DR. R. W. SHUFELDT ON THE OSTEOLOGY OF THE [Dec. 1, Fig. 8. Comibxna glareosa, p. 855. 9. Thalera obnupta, p. 855. 10. Ephyra fluidaria, p. 856. 11. Idaa grandicularia, p. 858. 12. Macaria boaria, S, P- 861. 13. Zanclopteryx infelix, p. 858. 14. Hyria volutaria, p. 858. 15. Idaa idaaria, p. 857. 16. Asthena querula, p. 859. 17. - - tristicula, p. 859. PLATE LVII. Fig. 1. Pyralis roborealis, p. 865. 2. Deba milvinalis, p. 875. 3. Iartheza obstitella, 2 > P- 880. 4. Charltona kola, j', p. 879. 5. Melissoblaptes depressellus, p. 876. 6. Metasia candidulalis, p. 880. 7. Eupithecia bilinea, p. 863. 8. conscensa, p. 863. 9. Scopula fetalis, p. 875. 10. Arrade massalis, p. 866. 11. Pyralis quisqualis, p. 865. 12. • zizanialis, p. 865. 13. Botys epastalis, p. 874. 14. Idaa chotaria, p. 858. 15. Eupithecia testacea, p. 863. 16. Scoparia ictericalis, p. 876. 17. Pyralis xylinalis, p. 865. 18. Nephopteryx lentalis, p. 877. 19. Homceosoma derasella, p. 877. 20. Nephopteryx creperalis, p. 877. 2. Contribution to the Comparative Osteology of the Trochilidce, Caprimulgida, and Cypselida?. By R. W. SHUFELDT, M.D., Captain Med. Dept. U.S. Army., M.A.O.U., Memb. Soc. Nat. E.U.S., Memb. Philosophical, Anthropological, and Biological Societies of Washington, &c. [Received September 16, 1885.] (Plates LV1II.-LXI.) As our knowledge of the structure of birds widens, it becomes more and more evident to taxonomists that ornithology nowhere presents a more unnatural order than the Picaria. Of late years authors candidly confess that the families arranged under this head constitute merely a provisional grouping, though at the same time the classification as it now stands must be retained until such light as morphology brings to bear is sufficiently strong to disperse this artificial assemblage and relegate its members to their several and normal positions in the system. So far as our American avifauna is concerned, it has always |