282 FOSSIL BIRDS 
metatarsus from the London Clay near St. James’s Park confirming 
its Ardeine relationship. Several associated bones of a bird from 
Sheppey were described by Sir R. Owen as Lithornis and provision- 
Remains OF Heap or Odontopteryz, from the original in the British Museum. Side view. 
2 natural size. 
THE SAME, seen from above, 
ally referred to the Accipitres. The shale of Plattenberg at Glarus 
has produced the skeleton of a bird probably belonging to the 
Passeres, and called by Von Meyer Pro- 
tornis, but since renamed Osteornis by M. 
Gervais. 
The bird-bones of the Upper Eocene 
of the Paris Basin deserve fuller notice. 
First brought to light towards the end 
of the last century, many of the remains 
fell under the notice of Cuvier, by whom 
they were more or less exactly determined. 
Following his investigations, the labours 
of MM. Gervais, Blanchard, and Desnoyers 
added considerably to our knowledge of these ornitholites, till 
finally Prof. A. Milne-Kdwards,! having compared all the specimens, 
THE SAME, Seen from behind. 
‘TI cannot let the name of this distinguished naturalist pass without 
acknowledging the very many tokens of friendship received at his hands in connce- 
tion with the present subject. His magnificent work on the Fossil Birds of France 
is known to all, and together with his article on Fossil Ornithology, in the second 
edition of D’Orbigny’s Dictionnaire wniverselle a’histoire naturelle, has been of 
