22 Frederick Chapman : 



Previously Recorded Occurpences of Birds' 

 Feathers. 



So far, the following appear to be the only instances of 

 feathers having been found in strata older than sub-recent. 



Upper Oolite. — Solenhofen, Bavaria (Archaeopteryx). 



Eocene. — Green River Shales, Wyoming, U.S.A.1 



Eocene. — ^Gypseous marls of Aix, Provence (Strix, Alcedo, 

 Upupa, Sittn and Turdus, associated Avith plants, insects and 

 fishesi).2 



Upper- Eocene. — Mont Bolca, near Verona, Italy (Ornitho- 

 lithes fail jasi and 0. tenuipennis).^ 



Upper Eocene. — Bournemouth. A small feather recorded 

 from the plant-beds by J. Starkie Gardner.^ 



(?) Eocene. — Gyj^seous beds of Senegal.^ 



Lower OJigocene. — Freshwater Limestone of Limagne, 

 Auvergne.6 



Lower Oligocene. — Konigsberg, Germany ; in amber.' 



Upper Oligocene. — Lignite beds of Rott, near Bonn, Ger- 

 many.** 



Upper Oligocene. — Two portions of feathers found by the 

 Rev. P. B. Brodie in the Bembridge Limestone, Gurnet Bay, 

 Cowes, L of Wight." 



Miocene. — ^Freshwater Limestone of Croatia, Austria."' 



Miocene. — Hard calcareous tufa of Hahnenbergs, Bernstein, 

 Germany." 



Miocene. — Lacustrine marls of Florissant, South Park, 

 Colorado, U.S.A. ^- 



Upper Miocene. — Oeningen, Bavaria. ^'^ 



1 Zittel-Eastman. Text-Book of Palaeontologv, 1002, p. 256. 

 •2 Bayaii. Bull. Soc. Geol. France, s^r. 3, vol. i., 1873, p. 386. 



3 Faujas. Ann. du Museum, 1804, vol. iii., pi. i. figs. 1-3; Oraboni, Atti lift. A'eneto di 

 Scienze, lettere 1885, ser. vi. vol. iii. 



4 C.eol. .May., dec. iii., vol. ii., 1885. p. 384. 



5 See Zittel. Traite de Palcontologie (French ed.), vol. iii., 1893, p. 79!>. 



6 Zittel. Loc. supra cit. 



7 Zittel. Loc. supra cit. 

 S Zittel. Loc. supra cit. 



9 Geol. Mag., 1885, loc. supra cit. 



10 Zittel. Loc. supra cit. 



11 Zittel. Loc. supra cit. 



12 Zittel. Loc. supra cit. ; see also Bather (Proc. (ieol. Assoc, vol. .\xi., pt. 3, 19U9, p. 

 159), for general conditions of deposit. 



13 Scheuchzer. Physica Sacra, 1731-1735, pi. LIIL, fig. 22. 



