554 



AVES. 



IIALCYONID,E. 



HAWYONIDM. ? 



A, B, Fossil cranium of Bird, eocene clay, Sheppey. c, Gull. 

 D and E, Kingfisher. Nat. size. 



HALCYORNIS TOLIAPICUS. Bird probably of the 

 family Haley onidee. 



Larus toliapicits, 



KONIG, Icones Fossiles Sectiles, fig. 193. 



THE fossil cranium of a bird, from the London clay at 

 Sheppey, figs. 234, A and B, and 235, forms part of the 

 collection in the British Museum, and is the subject of fig. 

 193 of the useful work commenced in 1838, by Mr. Konig, 

 under the title ' Icones Fossiles Sectiles. 1 * There is much 

 resemblance between this fossil and the corresponding 



* M. Pictet, (Paleontologie, 8vo. t. i. 1844, p. 347,) and M. Gervais, in his 

 Geological ' These snr les Oiseaux Fossiles,' 1844, p. 25, have cited No. 91, of 

 Mr. Kb'nig's ' Icones Fossiles Sectiles,' as that of the skull of a new genus of Pal- 

 miped, for which the name ' JBucklandium' 1 was proposed ; but, on examination 

 of the original specimen in the British Museum, I found it to be the fossil cra- 

 nium of a fish, allied to the genus Ephippus. 



