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EXTINCT MONSTERS 



acquired for the nation by the strenuous efforts and liberality 

 of the late Sir B. Owen (see preface). More recently a still finer 

 specimen, with the head complete, has turned up, and this is now 

 in the Berlin Museum (see Fig. 79). A very good idea of it may 



FIG. 80. Restoration of Arcliceopteryx, the oldest known bird. By W. P. Pycraft. 

 Skull of same. 



be gathered from the fine drawing presented by the late Professor 

 Dames, which is to be seen at the Natural History Museum, also 

 a cast. Some of those who first studied the creature's anatomy 

 took it for a reptile ; and they may well have been puzzled by 



