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Leptoptilus falconeri (Milne-Edwards '). 



Syii. Ai-fjala falconcn, Milne-Edwards ^ 



Typically of considerably larger size than L. argaJa, this feature 

 being apparently the sole point of difference from the latter, so far 

 as the imperfect specimens admit of forming a judgment 



f^ome of the smaUer specimens mentioned below may indicate a 

 second species. ■' '^'^^'^"^ '•■ 



Hub. India. 



Thefollorving specimem, which include the t,,pes, ^oere obtained from 

 the Lower Fhocene of the Simdik Hills, and, ^Mess it is stated 

 to^tl^e contrary, were ^.resented by Col. Sir P. T. Oautley in 



48435. The distal extremity of the left Inimerus. Described and 

 (%.) figured by Davies in the ' Geol. Mag.' decad. ii. vol vii 



p. ^4, pi 11. fig. 4 ; and also by the present writer in the 

 Palaeontologia Indica ' (Mem. Geol. Sm-v. Ind ) ser 10 



vol. iii. p. 140, pi. xiv. fig. 1. ' ■ ' 



Presented by Charles Falconer, Esq., 1868. 



39738. The proximal third of the first phalangeal of the wing 



Noticed by Davies, op. cit. p. 24, and by the present 



writer 0^.. cU p. 140; it is figured in the unpublished 



SivaWsif^* ^ ^^'^'°"'' ^""^ ^^^t^^y's 'I^auna Antiqua 



39737. The distal extremity of the left femur. Noticed by Davies 

 op. cit. p. 24,_ and by the writer, op. cit. p. 40 ; it indicates 

 a very large individual. 



39735. The distal extremity of the right tibio-tarsus. Noticed by 

 Davies, loc. cit., and by the writer, op. cit. p 139 • it is 

 figured in unpublished plate K. fig. 3 of the 'Fauna 

 Antiqua Sivalensis.' The specimen indicates a very lar-^e 

 individual. '^ 



39734. The distal portion of the right tibio-tarsus of a considerably 

 smaller individual, in a somewhat crushed condition 

 l^ oticed by the writer, loc. cit., and figured in the plate 

 cited above, fig. 5. 



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^ Loc. cit. 



