. Annals of the Carnegie Museum. Carnegie Museum; Carnegie Museum of Natural History; Natural history. Fig. 29. Superior view of the skull of Nycticorax violaceiis, juv. Natural size, and the same specimen as shown in Fig. 30. Drawn by the author. surface, which continues for a short distance into the substance of the bone, the neural canal of the caudal vertebrae. Other Herons have the pygostyle rather differently fashioned from this, though in each instance the leading features are Fig. 30. Superior view of the mandible of Nycticorax violaceiis. Drawn by the author, natural size fr
. Annals of the Carnegie Museum. Carnegie Museum; Carnegie Museum of Natural History; Natural history. Fig. 29. Superior view of the skull of Nycticorax violaceiis, juv. Natural size, and the same specimen as shown in Fig. 30. Drawn by the author. surface, which continues for a short distance into the substance of the bone, the neural canal of the caudal vertebrae. Other Herons have the pygostyle rather differently fashioned from this, though in each instance the leading features are Fig. 30. Superior view of the mandible of Nycticorax violaceiis. Drawn by the author, natural size from the specimen. From the same skeleton as Figs. 28 and 29. Of the Appendicular Skeleton. The Pectoral Limb : Ardca herodias has a highly pneumatic hi/nierus, which in the well prepared skeleton is a snowy-white, and for its size a wonderfully light bone. The ])neumatic aperture is of small dimensions, it being a sub-elliptical opening at the usual site for this orifice in birds. It differs some-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Carnegie Museum; Carnegie Museum of Natural History. [Pittsburgh] : Published by authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute
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