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but with a pelt of soft hairs, ahnost an inch in length, and perhaps in 

 many parts even with feathers; and that a similar covering is consequently 

 to be presumed in its congeners also." The plates which accompany 

 this part of the memoir represent the new species in its matrix, and 

 restored in its wanting parts by a comparison chiefly with Pter. longiros- 

 iris. An adumbration is also given of the animal hovering over its 

 supposed haunts; and outlines of the Pter. longirostris and Pter. brevi- 

 rostris serve as points of con)parison and illustration. 



In connection with the foregoing new species of Pterodactylus, Dr. 

 Goldfuss next proceeds to describe a cranium in the collection of Count 

 Munster. from the lithographic stone of Monheim, to which he assigns 

 the name of Ornithocephahis [Pterodactylus) Munsteri. The outhne 

 of this skull resembles that of a Heron, and still more that of the Uria 

 Troile: but the traces of six teeth, perfectly similar to those of Pter. 

 crassirostris, Goldf., lying almost in contact with it, lead to the 

 conjecture that it was furnished with teeth. This hypothesis gains 

 additional strength on comparing the outline of the skulls of Pter. crassi- 

 rostris and Pter. brevirostris, seen from above, with that of the skull in 

 question ; and the authour commends the block in which the specimen 

 is found to the closer examination of its possessor, as a means of confirm- 

 ing or of contradicting his opinion, which is expressed in the name 

 given to the species. 



A third new fossil reptile, also from the lithographic stone of Monheim, 

 is the Lacerta neptunia, Goldf. The skeleton figured and described is 

 nearly perfect, very few of its parts being lost: it measures in total 

 length three inches and five lines (Parisian measure) , and resembles in most 

 particulars the skeleton of the common Lacerta agilis; from which it 

 differs chiefly in the smaller number of its dorsal and lumbar vertebras, 

 in its few but larger teeth, in its broader ribs, and in its smaller size. 



The other principal head into which this important paper is subdivided 

 comprehends the authour's notes on the fossil reptiles of the schistose 

 braunkohl or papierkohl, of the neighbourhood of Bonn, so rich in 

 impressions of dicotyledonous leaves as to have been regarded as entirely 

 composed of a mass of such leaves pressed together, and belonging 



