. Catalogue of the specimens illustrating the osteology of vertebrated animals, recent and extinct, contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 34 PICO-PASSERES. Genus ICTERUS*. Brissoii, Oni. xi. p. .So (1760). Icterus jamacai. Oriolus Jamacai, (Traeliii, Syst. Nat. i. p. 391 (1788). Icterus jamacai (Gm.), Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 333 (1886). The Brazilian Hang-nest. Ilah. Brazil. 128. Natural skeleton. From the Zoological Society. 139. Natural skeleton. Presented hy Mr. J. Ahraliams. Icterus leucopteryx. Fsarocolius , AVagler, Syst. Av. sp. 16,


. Catalogue of the specimens illustrating the osteology of vertebrated animals, recent and extinct, contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 34 PICO-PASSERES. Genus ICTERUS*. Brissoii, Oni. xi. p. .So (1760). Icterus jamacai. Oriolus Jamacai, (Traeliii, Syst. Nat. i. p. 391 (1788). Icterus jamacai (Gm.), Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 333 (1886). The Brazilian Hang-nest. Ilah. Brazil. 128. Natural skeleton. From the Zoological Society. 139. Natural skeleton. Presented hy Mr. J. Ahraliams. Icterus leucopteryx. Fsarocolius , AVagler, Syst. Av. sp. 16, p. 172 (1827). Icterus leucopteryx (Wagl.), Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mxis. xi. p. 387 (1886). The Banana-biku. Ilab. Jamaica. 130. Sterninn and sboulder-girdle of t'enuile (wanting left coracoid and right and left scapula?). S. S. 1441 a. Presented hy tlie SrnitJisonian Institution. Family PLOCEID^. Cranial deficiency large, with minute interorbital fenestra, not as large as the o])tic foramen. Frontal zygoma small; squamosal large. Articular not prolonged backwards. Palatines with the posterior external angle slightly prolonged. Fig. 18. «/ if/ i-.:.p s:p. Laleral view of skull of Pyromelana oryx.—, optic foramen ; s<, supra- orbital fenestra;/.;:r.^., frontal zygomatic process; s-z.^h, squamosal zygomatic process. * For an account of the osteology of certain North-American species of thi.'* genus, see Shufeklt, Journ. Anat. Phys. pp. 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 Sharpe, Richard Bowdler, 1847-1909. London


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