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Show 1889.] ANATOMY OF BURMEISTER's CARIAMA. 601 I m a y remark, however, that in Chunga* there are considerable traces of the right aortic arch in the shape of a fibrous band attached to the aorta just in front of origin of the cceliac axis. This m ay Fig. 6. Cariama cristata. Pelvis, dorsal view. perhaps be regarded as a point of resemblance with the Accipitres: it is true that in other birds besides the Accipitres the ligament 1 I have not had an opportunity of finding out whether Cariama shows the same structure. PROC ZOOL. Soc-1889, No. XL. 40 |