. A dictionary of birds . at lllarushas produced the skeleton of a bird probably belonging to thePasseres, and called by Von Meyer Fro-tornis, but since renamed Osteornis by The bird-bones of the Upper Eoceneof the Paris Basin deserve fuller brought to light towards the endof the last century, many of the remainsfell under the notice of Cuvier, by whomthey were more or less exactly his investigations, the laboursof MM. Gervais, Blanchard, and Desnoyersadded considerably to our knowledge of these ornitholites, tillfinally Prof. A. Milne-Edwards, ^ ha
. A dictionary of birds . at lllarushas produced the skeleton of a bird probably belonging to thePasseres, and called by Von Meyer Fro-tornis, but since renamed Osteornis by The bird-bones of the Upper Eoceneof the Paris Basin deserve fuller brought to light towards the endof the last century, many of the remainsfell under the notice of Cuvier, by whomthey were more or less exactly his investigations, the laboursof MM. Gervais, Blanchard, and Desnoyersadded considerably to our knowledge of these ornitholites, tillfinally Prof. A. Milne-Edwards, ^ having compared all the specimens, I cannot let the name of tins distingnishecl naturalist pass withoutacknowledging the very many tokens of friendship received at liis hands in connec-tion with the present subject. His magnificent work on the Fossil Birds of Franceis known to all, and together with his article on Fossil Ornithology, in the secondedition of DOrbignys Didiomiaire universelle dhistoirc naturelle, has been of. The same, seen from behind. FOSSIL BIRDS 28s referred them to the genera Agnopterus, Coiurnix, Cryptornis, Falco,Gypsornis, Laurillardia, Limosa, Palsegithalus, Palxocircus, Falasortyx,Pelidna, , Ballus, and (?) Trinr/a. Of these the extinctgenera are the first, which was probably distantly allied to theFlamingos; the third, believed to be a HoRNBiLL (A. Milne-Edwards, Ois. Foss. Fr. ii. p. 547); the fifth a Ealline form; the sixthnow shewn to be allied to Hartlaubia of Madagascar; ^ the eighth(originally identified with Sitta) probably connecting Parus (Tit-mouse) and Sylvia (Warbler) ; and the ninth and tenth re-spectively referable to the Accipitres and the Gallinse. Theequivalent beds of Hordwell in Hampshire have yielded remainsof several birds,^ including an Accipitrine, Adiornis, Agnopterus (?),Colymboides, Elornis (?), Geranopsis, Grus, Ibidopsis, of which thesecond being allied to the Cormorants, the fifth to the Cranes,and the last to
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