436 Prof. Carl Vogt on 
After having resumed possession of his treasure, Herr 
Haberlein addressed himself to me, in the hope that the Mu- 
seum of Geneva would be able to acquire the collection at 
the much reduced price of 26,000 marks. This sum, other- 
wise suitable, much exceeding the resources of the Museum, 
it was necessary to let it go. 
However, about the end of March last, I went to Pappenheim 
to see the collection. Having only one morning at my dis- 
posal, I was unable to make a thorough investigation, though 
what I saw filled me with enthusiasm. I promised Herr Ha- 
berlein to do all I could to obtain the price asked, and to 
help the sale, so that the specimen could be studied by every- 
body. Herr Haberlein has entrusted me with a photograph 
of the natural size, with the condition that I should not 
permit any reproduction whatever of it *. 
The animal preserved in the slab is of the size of a Ring- 
Dove. ‘The remains described by Prof. Owen belong to the 
same species, but to an example greater by a fifth. 
The new specimen is entire. The head, neck, trunk, and 
hind-quarters are placed in profile, the head bent backwards, 
so that its top nearly touches the back. The wings, united 
at the shoulder-girdle, are spread as if for flight. The ante- 
rior extremity of the head and the pelvis are still embedded. 
The left leg is only disengaged so as to show half of its 
length, the femur and the upper half of the tibia being 
covered by the feathered thigh of the right leg. 
The head is small, pyramidal, the top nearly flat, the occiput 
obliquely truncated. It is much compressed, and the anterior 
extremity not wholly disengaged. The orbit is large, with 
the nostril in front of it. By means of a lens two little conical 
and sharp teeth are perceived at the end, planted in the upper 
jaw. On the lower surface a forked bone is seen behind. I 
dare not say whether this is the lower jaw, which in that case 
would be very slender and weak, or whether it is the tongue- 
bone, developed as in the Woodpeckers. An elaborate study, 
and one requiring much time and care, would be needed to 
[The photograph (Pl. XIII.) accompanying this paper was taken after 
the specimen had passed out of Herr Haberlein’s hands.—Ep. ] 
