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Show 1896.] HYOID BONES OE NESTOR AND NANODES. 237 while the former is laterally expanded and bears dorsally a cup-like depression (c). The hinder half of the basihyal bears dorsally a rounded antero-posteriorly extending ridge. The parahyal processes arise much as they do in the Lories previously described, but are exceedingly slender and meet together at a symphysis which is situated about midway between the anterior and posterior extremities of the basihyal. The symphysis is connected with the preaxial part of the basihyal by a rather vertically broad osseous band which passes obliquely backward to it from just behind Fig. 1. Hyoid of Nestor meridionalis. A. Dorsal aspect; C. Lateral aspect. B. Ventral aspect; b. e. c. al. pi. dl. Basihyal. Entoglossum. Cup-like concavity. Anterior lateral process. Posterior lateral process. Dorsal lateral process. p. s. hb. cb. u. ud. Parahyal arch. Its symphysis. Hypobranchial. Oeratobranchial. Urohyal, its larger proximal part Urohyal, its smaller distal part. |
