. Catalogue of the fossil birds in the British Museum (Natural History). COLTTMBID^. 125 A. 212. The left coracoid; from the Pleistocene deposits of Malta. {F'uj.) The type (fig. 29). The characteristic Columbine features arc well shown in the process descending from the head and nearly meeting the large subclavicular process, which has no perforation at its base. Preseated by Admiral Spratt, Fig. Columha melitensis.â^Dorsal and Tentral aspects of left coracoid. }. Columba calcaria, Milne-Edwards i. Known by the humerus, which is considerably smaller than that of Ticriur comniMiis. H
. Catalogue of the fossil birds in the British Museum (Natural History). COLTTMBID^. 125 A. 212. The left coracoid; from the Pleistocene deposits of Malta. {F'uj.) The type (fig. 29). The characteristic Columbine features arc well shown in the process descending from the head and nearly meeting the large subclavicular process, which has no perforation at its base. Preseated by Admiral Spratt, Fig. Columha melitensis.â^Dorsal and Tentral aspects of left coracoid. }. Columba calcaria, Milne-Edwards i. Known by the humerus, which is considerably smaller than that of Ticriur comniMiis. Hab. Europe (France). From the Lower Miocene (Upper Oligocene) of Allier. Genus TURTUR, Selby*. The tarso-metatarsus is relatively longer and more slender than in Columha. Curttit: commum'jf, Selby ^. Syn. Columha turtur, Linn.^ Hah. PaliEarctic region. A. 209. The right tarso-metatarsus, wanting the inner trochlea ; from a Pleistocene cavern-deposit at Mentone, This specimen, which has a length of 0,030, is slightly longer ' Oiscaux Fossiles de la France, vol. ii. p. 292 (1869-71). ^ Naturalist'.s LibraryâOrnithology, vol. v. p. 169 (1835). 3 Ibid. p. 153. â * Syst. Nat. ed. 12, vol. i. p. 281 (1766).. 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 British Museum (Natural History). Department of Geology. [Birds]; Lydekker, Richard, 1848-1915. London
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