. A dictionary of birds . Fig. 3.—Sternal Apparatis of Uksperornis. (As before, after Marsh.)0 coracoid ;/, furcula; /(, liumerus; s, scapula; st. .sternum. fashion) an author in the Emydopmlia Britannica (ed. 9, xviii. , 44), and Prof, von Zittel (Handb. Palmozool. Abth. I, 826, 834). Almost simultaneously, however, Prof. Vetter(Feshihi. d(i 6cs /s/s in Ihe-drn, 188), p 109) c\plamed Hesper-. Fig. 4.—Pelvis of Hesperornis. (As before, after )a, acetabulum ; U. ilium ; U. ischium ; p, pectineal process ; p, os pubis. ornis as a Carinate Bird, exclusively adapted to aquatic
. A dictionary of birds . Fig. 3.—Sternal Apparatis of Uksperornis. (As before, after Marsh.)0 coracoid ;/, furcula; /(, liumerus; s, scapula; st. .sternum. fashion) an author in the Emydopmlia Britannica (ed. 9, xviii. , 44), and Prof, von Zittel (Handb. Palmozool. Abth. I, 826, 834). Almost simultaneously, however, Prof. Vetter(Feshihi. d(i 6cs /s/s in Ihe-drn, 188), p 109) c\plamed Hesper-. Fig. 4.—Pelvis of Hesperornis. (As before, after )a, acetabulum ; U. ilium ; U. ischium ; p, pectineal process ; p, os pubis. ornis as a Carinate Bird, exclusively adapted to aquatic life, andhaving no affinity to the Puditx, though since he regarded these lastas reduced Carinatie its mutual relation to the Batifx was ol)vious,and people began to confound them, speaking almost in M. Dollos ODONTORNITHES 651 phrase of it as a Swimming Ostrich. About the same time itwas found that the presence of teeth was a character apparentlycommon to all Cretaceous Birds. The opinions expressed byProf. Fiirbringer in the earlier portion of bis great work need notbe here adduced, since they were modified in the course of its pro-gress; but he finally declared {Untersiiclmngen, u. s. w. pp. 1543,1565, 1580) that the Odontolcm were the ancestral relations ofhis Colymbo-Podicipites, with which they formed his Suborder Podicipitiformes, while a similar vieAv was taken in 1890 byProf. DArcy Thomp
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