. A dictionary of birds . Remains of Head of Odontopteryx, from the original in the British Museiuii. Side view. -5 natural The same, seen from above. ally referred to the Accijntres. The shale of Plattenberg 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 d
. A dictionary of birds . Remains of Head of Odontopteryx, from the original in the British Museiuii. Side view. -5 natural The same, seen from above. ally referred to the Accijntres. The shale of Plattenberg 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
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