. 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. 20 PICO-PASSERES. Genus SERICULUS. Swainson, Zool. Journ. i. p. 478 (1825). Sericulus melinus. Tardus melinus, Lath. Ind. Orn. Suppl. ii. p. xliv (1801). Sericulus melinus, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vi. p. 395 (1881). The Eegent-bird. Hah. Australia. 74. Sternum of female, with shoulder-girdle. Clarence River, N. S. W. {E. P. Ramsay). S. S. 1078. Presented hy P. L. Sclater, Esq., Family STURNIDiE. A. Flexure of mandible
. 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. 20 PICO-PASSERES. Genus SERICULUS. Swainson, Zool. Journ. i. p. 478 (1825). Sericulus melinus. Tardus melinus, Lath. Ind. Orn. Suppl. ii. p. xliv (1801). Sericulus melinus, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vi. p. 395 (1881). The Eegent-bird. Hah. Australia. 74. Sternum of female, with shoulder-girdle. Clarence River, N. S. W. {E. P. Ramsay). S. S. 1078. Presented hy P. L. Sclater, Esq., Family STURNIDiE. A. Flexure of mandible below the naso-frontal suture. Cranial deficiency very large, and extending as far forward as the somewhat narrow interorbital fenestra. B. Frontal and squamosal zygomatic processes only slightly developed. C. Palatines with the posterior extremity slightly prolonged. D. A marked backward prolongation of angular. Genus STURNUS*. Linnaeus, Syst. Xat. i. p. 291 (1766). Fig-. 14. I'of sof f.:p Lateral view of skull of Sturnus vulgaris.—, interorbital fenestra; , supraorbital fenestra; /., frontal zygomatic process; , squamosal zygomatic process; a, backward prolongation of mandible. * " That part of the Passerine palatine which is arrested from forming a bony palatal floor generally exists as a free fore-looking spine. This is well seen in the Sparrow ; it is the interpalatine process. ... In Ducks and Swans this is a separate knuckle of bone; and in looking over a large number of Starling skulls, I find it in certain of ; {Parker, Trans. Linn. Soc. (2) Zool. V. pt. 1, pi. .XX. fig. 12.) An examination of a skull of aS*. vulgaris which Professor Stewart has recently made proves that Stnrnus also pos- sesses the bony 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
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