. Annals of the Carnegie Museum. Carnegie Museum; Carnegie Museum of Natural History; Natural history. Snui ': ok thk 53 broadish and roniprcssed from above downwards ; the ilio-ischiac notch distinct ; and the ischia very much ])roduced behind, l)eing car- ried along on tO]) of the ])Ost-piibis, on either side, as a debcate pointed spine, reaching ahiiost to its end behind. 'I'his si)ecies has, inchiding the jiygostyle, ten coccygeal vertebra;. Other Sandpipers possess pelves much upon the same plan. In Limosa, Totaiius, Hctcractiiis and in the Willets {Sy//if>/i
. Annals of the Carnegie Museum. Carnegie Museum; Carnegie Museum of Natural History; Natural history. Snui ': ok thk 53 broadish and roniprcssed from above downwards ; the ilio-ischiac notch distinct ; and the ischia very much ])roduced behind, l)eing car- ried along on tO]) of the ])Ost-piibis, on either side, as a debcate pointed spine, reaching ahiiost to its end behind. 'I'his si)ecies has, inchiding the jiygostyle, ten coccygeal vertebra;. Other Sandpipers possess pelves much upon the same plan. In Limosa, Totaiius, Hctcractiiis and in the Willets {Sy//if>/ie/>iia) the ])elvis comes considerably nearer the ])attern as we found it above among the Curlews. 1 am confident that in the Liniicolcc the number of coccygeal vertebra: is liable to vary even within the genus. They range from seven to eleven, and may or may not be constant, although I think that the number which may fuse with the pelvic sacrum, in any. Fig. i8. The os furcula of Nioiicniiis lom^irostris ; a three-quarter ohlicjue view from the right side ; natural size. species, has not a little to do with it. The count in immature birds would be the most accurate. Of the Shoulder-Girdle (Fig. i8).—We find in Niimeniiis loiigi- rostris the usual l)ones allotted to this arch free and articulated in the manner as commonly seen in many of the class. The sha])e of the os furcula is u])on the broad U-variety, and is l)roader in this Curlew than it is in others of the same genus, and still more so than in the Plovers. \'iewing it laterally, we observe also that it is very decidedly curved upon itself, with the convexity directed forwards when /;/ situ. When articulated, the long and pointed clavicular heads rest on either side against the inner aspects of the summits of the coracoids, while the tips extend backwards to meet the usual process furnished by each scapula. This brings the hypocleidium oi)])Osite the middle of the anterior border of the sternum, from which it is sep
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