554 HALCYONID ®. 
AVES. HALCYONID/.. ? 
Fig. 234. 
A, B, Fossil cranium of Bird, eocene clay, Sheppey. c, Gull. 
p and £, Kingfisher. Nat. size. 
HALCYORNIS TOLIAPICUS. Bird probably of the 
family Zalcyonide. 
Larus toliapicus, Kone, Icones Fossiles Sectiles, fig. 193. 
Tur fossil cranium of a bird, from the London clay at 
Sheppey, figs. 234, a and pn, and 235, forms part of the 
collection in the British Museum, and is the subject of fig. 
193 of the useful work commenced in 1838, by Mr. Konig, 
under the title ‘ Ieones Fossiles Sectiles.* There is much 
resemblance between this fossil and the corresponding 
* M. Pictet, (Paléontologie, 8vo. t. i. 1844, p. 347,) and M. Gervais, in his 
Geological ‘Thése sur les Oiseaux Fossiles,’ 1844, p. 25, have cited No. 91, of 
Mr. K@nig’s ‘Icones Fossiles Sectiles,’ as that of the skull of a new genus of Pal- 
miped,—for which the name ‘ Bucklandium’ was proposed ; but, on examination 
of the original specimen in the British Museum, I found it to be the fossil cra- 
nium of a fish, allied to the genus Lphippus. 
