. 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. 26 l'ICO-PASSERf;s. Family ARTAMID^ ^. Genus ARTAMUS. Yieillot, Analyse, p. 41 (1816). A. Nasal capsule bony, leaving small rounded nasal aperture. B. Posterior extremity of the palatines gradually passing into a long slender process continuous with its internal angle. C. Frontal zygomatic pi'ocess long, broad at base ; squamosal hardly marked, but D. Angular without backward prolongation. Fio-. IG. Fi?-. i^_£. soJ- Ifp- ^
. 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. 26 l'ICO-PASSERf;s. Family ARTAMID^ ^. Genus ARTAMUS. Yieillot, Analyse, p. 41 (1816). A. Nasal capsule bony, leaving small rounded nasal aperture. B. Posterior extremity of the palatines gradually passing into a long slender process continuous with its internal angle. C. Frontal zygomatic pi'ocess long, broad at base ; squamosal hardly marked, but D. Angular without backward prolongation. Fio-. IG. Fi?-. i^_£. soJ- Ifp- ^/P-. Fig. 15.—Lateral view of skull of Artamus leucogader (enlarged).—, interoibital fenestra; , supraorbital fenestra; f.~-p., frontal zygo- matic process; , squamosal zygomatic process. (From a specimen in the Museum of the Iloyal College of Surgeons.) Fig. 16.—Ventral view of palate (enlarged). Artamus fuscus. Artamus fuscus, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xvii. p. 297 (1817) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiii, p. 11 (1890) ; Oatos, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 498 (1889). The Ashy Swallow-Shrike. Hah. India to Tenasserim, Siam, and China. * According to Nitzsch (cf. also Forbes, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 838), Artamus wants the aftershaft of the feather. Eyton gives a short description of the skeleton of A. leucogaster in his ' Osteologia' (p. 12-3). The skidl of specimen 106 a seems to show that Artamus is a Laniine form, and has nothing to do with the Starlings. The prolongation of the posterior internal angle of the palatines as a long and delicate spine and the osseous olfactory capsule prove the alhnity of Artaiuus to Lanius beyond a 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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