_Description._—The scapula is a thin, sword-like bone, becoming thicker as it approaches the shoulder-joint. The scapula expands and becomes thin near the free end, which reaches nearly to the antero-lateral portion of the ilium (Fig. 4, No. 24). The scapula articulates with the coracoid. A _pneumatic foramen_ is located at the base of the acromion process. The anterior part of the scapula is provided with an articular head and is provided with an inner process, called the _processus furcularis_, which lies near the furcula and coracoid. An outer stronger _processus humeralis_ forms the posterior half of the _glenoid cavity_, or _cavitas glenoidalis_, in which the humerus articulates and the processus coracoideus. =The Clavicle.= _Location._—The clavicles, commonly known as the wish bone, are located in the anterior chest region. _Description._—The clavicles are long, slender bones uniting below in the _hypocledium_, a laterally flattened process. They are joined to the upper end of the coracoid by fibrous cartilage. The hypocledium is joined to the anterior point of the sternum by the claviculosternal ligament. The clavicles, as united by the hypocledium, form a v-shaped structure called the furculum, or, popularly, the wish bone. The forks play the part of an elastic spring, whose office it is to prevent the wings from coming toward each other during contraction of the depressor muscles. The conformation of this bone is, therefore, like the sternum, related to the extent and power of flight; and for this reason it is that, in swift flyers, the two branches of the furculum are thick, solid, widely separated, and curved like a U; while in those that fly heavily and with difficulty, these branches are thin and weak, and join at an acute angle. The latter formation greatly diminishes its strength, and lessens, in a singular manner, the reactionary power of the bony arch it represents. =The Coracoid.= _Location._—The coracoid is located just back of the clavicle and at the side of the entrance of the thoracic cavity. It is the strongest bone of the shoulder girdle, extending upward, outward, and forward. It articulates inferiorly with the sternum and superiorly with the humerus and the scapula, and is attached to the superior end of the furcular limb by a fibrous cartilage. _Description._—It is thinnest in the center or shaft and broadens toward the inferior extremity. The upper hook-like part of the coracoid forms the fore part of the glenoid cavity, and together with the scapula and furcula form the foramen triosseum through which passes the tendon of the elevator muscle of the wing. The upper end flattens out into three tuberosities, the tuberositas furcularis which is thick and to which attaches the limb of the furcula, the tuberositas scapularis which unites to the scapula, and the tuberositas humeralis which lies between these and articulates with the humerus. THE FORE LIMB