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species comes closer to //. crocuta. 11. felina differs from all other 

 species of Hyaena, living or extinct, in the absence of the upper 

 premolar 1. Felis granilicristata, which was of about the same 

 size as some of the larger varieties of the Royal Tiger, had the 

 sagittal crest even more prominent than the F. cristata of Falconer 

 & Cautley. Machcerodus sivalensis was of about the same size as tho 

 Jaguar. One of the specimens, on which this species is based, 

 shows two molars in the deciduous dentition instead of three (as in 

 the genus Felis). M. palceindicus was considerably larger than M. 

 sivalensis. Both differ from all other known species of Machcerodus 

 in the form of the lower jaw &c. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



On Archajopteryx macroura. By Prof. Carl Yogt. 



Pkof. Vogt read before the last meeting of the " Societe Helve'tique 

 des Sciences Naturelles," held at St. Gall in August 1879, a com- 

 munication on Arclumpteryx macroura. He remarked, first, that 

 in 1861 Hermann von Meyer described a bird's feather found in the 

 lithographic stone of Solenhofen in Bavaria, belonging to the Upper 

 Jurassic deposits. The German paleontologist gave the name of 

 Arcliaiopteryx lithoyraphica to the bird revealed by this feather. 



In 1863 Prof. Owen described, under the name of Archceopteryx 

 macroura, a much more important specimen from the same beds, 

 and found by M. Haberlein, a doctor at Pappenheim. This was a 

 slab showing with the greatest distinctness the hinder part of a 

 bird, and also the feathers of the wings in disorder, as well as a 

 few bones belouging to the anterior limbs. 



M. Haberleins son has discovered a new slab containing a second 

 example of Archaiopteryx, which Prof. Vogt has been able to examine. 

 This new specimen is complete ; and its wings are unfolded as if in 

 flight. 



The head is small ; with the lens two small conical poin'.e;! teeth 

 may be observed implanted in the upper jaw. 



M. Yogt counted eight cylindrical cervical vertebroe, furnished 

 with very fine, backwardly directed ribs. The dorsal vertebrae 

 appear to be ten in number ; they are thick and short, and bear no 

 spinous apophyses. The ribs attached to them are very fine, slender, 

 curved and pointed at the end ; they show neither any flattening 

 nor any traces of the uncinate apophyses which occur in birds. 

 There ar*e very fine sternal ribs, which appear to be attached to a 

 linear abdominal sternum. 



The pelvis is still involved in the matrix. The tail, which is very- 

 long, is preserved throughout its whole extent. However, it teaches 

 nothing more than was known from Prof. Owen's specimen. 



The posterior limbs, which are not, on the whole, so well preserved 

 as in the first example, show nevertheless with perfect certainly 



