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For scientific descriptions of these birds the reader is 

 referred to Owen's paper " On the Archceopteryx of von 

 Meyer , with a Description of the Fossil Remains, etc." in 

 the " Transactions of the Philosophical Society of London 

 for 1863" page 33, and " Odontornithes, a Monograph 

 of the Extinct Toothed Birds of North America" by O. 

 C. Marsh. Much popular and scientific information 

 concerning the early birds is to be found in Newtdn's 

 Dictionary of Birds" and The Story of Bird Life" 

 by W. P. Pycraft ; the " Structure and Life of Birds" 

 by F. W. Headley ; " The Story of the Birds" by J. 

 Newton Baskett. 



Fig. 17. Archaeopteryx as Restored by Mr. Pycraft. 



