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but with a pelt of soft hairs, almost an inch in length, and perhaps in 
many parts even with feathers; and that a similar covering is consequently 
to be presumed in its congeners also.” The plates which accompany 
this part of the memoir represent the new species in its matrix, and 
_Testored in its wanting parts by a comparison chiefly with Pter. longiros- 
‘tris. An adumbration is aJso given of the animal hovering over its 
supposed haunts; and outlines of the Pter. longirostris and Pter. brevi~ 
rostris serve aS points of comparison and illustration, 
In connection with the foregoing new species of Pterodactylus, Dr. 
Goldfuss next proceeds to describe a cranium in the collection of Count 
Munster, from the lithographic stone of Monheim, to which he assigns 
the name of Ornithocephalus (Ptcrodactylus) Munstert. The outline 
of this skull resembles that of a Heron, and still more that of the Uria 
Troile: but the traces of six teeth, perfectly similar to those of Pter. 
erassirostris, Goldf., lying almost in contact with it, lead to the 
conjecture that it was furnished with teeth. This hypothesis gains 
additional strength on comparing the outline of the skulls of Péter. crasst- 
rostris and Pier. brevirostris, seen from above, with that of the skull in 
question ; and the authour commends the block in which the specimen 
is found to the closer examination of its possessor, asa means of confirm- 
ing or of contradicting his opinion, which is expressed in the name 
given to the species. 
A third new fossil reptile, also from the lithographic stone of Monheim, 
is the Lacerta neptunia, Goldf. The skeleton figured and described is 
nearly perfect, very few of its parts being lost; it measures in total 
length three inches and five lines (Parisian measure), and resembles in most 
particulars the skeleton of the common Lacerta agilis; from which it 
differs chiefly in the smaller number of its dorsal and lumbar vertebre, 
in its few but larger teeth, in its broader ribs, and in its smaller size. 
The other principal head into which this important paper is subdivided 
comprehends the authour’s notes on the fossil reptiles of the schistose 
braunkohl or papierkohl, of the neighbourhood of Bonn, so rich in 
impressions of dicotyledonous leaves as to have been regarded as entirely 
composed of a mass of such leaves pressed together, and belonging 
