. Catalogue of the fossil birds in the British Museum (Natural History). lU :. Cttupa ftproiundt's (Guu'lin '). Syn. Strix ceylonensis, (iuieliu -. Ilah. Ceylon and Southern India. A. 88. The k'tt femur, wanting the distal extremity ; from a cave in the Karnul district, Madras. A similar specimen is described by the writer in the ' Pahvontologia Indica' (Mem. Geol. Surv. Ind.), ser. 1(», vol. iv. p. 52; other imperfect bones from the same deposits being figured in woodcut 4. I'respntfd hy the Director of the Geological Survey of India, 1S86. Fig. Cetnpa ceylonensis.—The distal hal
. Catalogue of the fossil birds in the British Museum (Natural History). lU :. Cttupa ftproiundt's (Guu'lin '). Syn. Strix ceylonensis, (iuieliu -. Ilah. Ceylon and Southern India. A. 88. The k'tt femur, wanting the distal extremity ; from a cave in the Karnul district, Madras. A similar specimen is described by the writer in the ' Pahvontologia Indica' (Mem. Geol. Surv. Ind.), ser. 1(», vol. iv. p. 52; other imperfect bones from the same deposits being figured in woodcut 4. I'respntfd hy the Director of the Geological Survey of India, 1S86. Fig. Cetnpa ceylonensis.—The distal half of the right tibio-tarsiis (A), and of Ihe right tarso-metatarsus (B); from a cave in Madras. ]. (From tlie ' Palreontologia Indica.') Genus NYCTEA, Stephens ^ The tarso-metatarsus (fig. 5) is relatively shorter and stouter than in any other genus, and has the talon extremely short and promi- nent. ' Syst. Nat. vol. i. p. 287 (1788).—-S'^'m-. ^ Loc. cit. ' In Shaw's Gen. Zool. vol. xiii. pt. 2, p. (i2(1820).. 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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