BRITISH FOSSIL BIRDS. 
AVES. PALMIPEDES. ? 
Figs 230. 
Three views of distal end of tibia, Bird, Chalk. Nat. size. 
CIMOLIORNIS* DIOMEDEUS. Long-winged 
Bird of the Chalk. 
Bird allied to Albatross, OWEN, Geological Transactions, 2nd Series, vol. yi. 
1840, p. 411, pl. xxxix, figs. 1 and 2. 
Osteornis diomedeus, Gervais, Thése sur les Oiseaux Fossiles, 8vo. 1844, 
p. 38. 
Or the few actually fossilized remains of birds that have 
been discovered in England, the most complete and cha- 
racteristic are those from the London clay. Some frag- 
mentary ornitholites have been discovered in the older 
pliocene crag, and in the newer pliocene fresh-water de- 
posits and bone-caves. Extremely scanty have hitherto 
been the recognizable remains of birds from the chalk 
* xywewarid, chalk, cous, bird, 
+ This term is applied by M. Gervais, not generically to the fossil in question, 
but generally to all fossil bones of Birds ; and sometimes to bones of other ani- 
mals, as in the case of his Osteornis ardeaceus, 
NEN 
