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Title: A guide to the fossil mammals and birds in the Department of Geology and Palæontology in the British Museum (Natural History) ..
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Geology Woodward, Henry, 1832-1921
Subjects: Mammals, Fossil Birds, Fossil
Publisher: (London) Printed by order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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se,1867 by Mr. Gerard Krefft; more recently, in 1883, Mr. E. P. *°***Ramsay, F.L.S., Curator of the Australian Museum, Sydney, Ecludnadiscovered the fossil humerus and three other bones of anexceedingly large Echidna (E. Ramsayi, Owen) in the breccia ofthe Wellington Caves, New South Wales, and sent to Prof.Sir Richard Owen plaster casts of the same for description.These are exhibited in Table-case, No. 14a. The Multituberculata (seep. 83) may belong to this sub-class. (Xote, explanatory of small italic letters attached to figures of AmericanJurassic Mammals, given on pp. 79 and 85, Pigs. 99 and 108. Fig. 99, p. 79, a, canine tooth; h, condyle; c, coronoid process; a, angle;ff, mylohyoid groove ; s, symphysial surface. Fig. 108, p. 85, l, 2,3, the incisors; a, fix-st premolar; «, second premolar;I, fourth premolar; h\ third premolar; c, second true molar; m,malar arch ; -s, suture with maxillary. In the loiver jaws, a, incisor 5b, condyle; c, coxonoid process ; r, x-oot of incisor.)
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Fig. 111.—The Loxgtailed Fossil Bikd, Arckceopleryx macrura (Owen), from the LlTHOGBAPHIC STONE. Up?£K. J0RASSIC, ElCHSTADT, BAVABIA. ABOCT ONE-FOCBTH NATURAL (See Table ease, No. 13, in the Pavilion.)For explanation of letters to bones, see note on p. 97. Aves. 89 Class 2.—AYES (Birds). • Birds, says Professor Huxley, are animals so similar toReptilia in all the most essential features of their organisation,that they may he said to be merely an extremely modified andaberrant Reptilian type. Their differentiation is, however, sogreat as to indicate without doubt their rights to form a distinctclass. It has generally been considered that the most ancient type of pavilion,birds known is that of the great wingless running birds, such Table-caseas the Ostrich, Rhea. Emeu, Cassowary, and Apteryx, and no doubtthese may have had a very high antiquity, but the oldest fossilbird at present discovered is the Archceopteryx macrura of Owen(see Fig. 112), This remarkable long-tailed bird wa

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