554 FAUNA ANTIQUA SIVALENSIS. 



Plate R. 



Fossil Remains of Birds from the Sewalik hills. 



Figs. 1 and 1 a. — Cervical vertebrae of a bird. — B.M. No. 23,105. 



Figs. 2, 2 a, 2 5, 2 c, and 2 d. — Lower end of tibia. — B.M. No. 

 39,732. 



Figs 3, 3 rt, 3 J, and 3 c— Lower end of ditto.— B.M. No. 39,735. 



Figs. 4, 4 a, and 4 &.— Lower end of ditto.— B.M. No. 39,737. 



Figs. 5, 5 a, 5 h, and 5 c. — Lower end of ditto.— B.M. No. 39,734. 



Fig. 6. — Lower end of tibia of a bird, recent. 



Figs. 7, 7 a, and 7 b. — Fragment of wing-bone. — B.M. No. 39,740. 



Figs. 8, 8 a, 8 b, and 8 c— Fragment of ditto.— B.M. No. 39,738. 



Figs. 9 and 9 a. — Upper end of metatarsal bone. — B.M. No. 39,741. 



Figs. 10, 10 a, and 10 5.— Fragment of wing-bone.— B.M. No. 39,744. 



Figs. 11, 11 a, and 11 5.— Fragment of ditto.— B.M. No. 39,743. 



Figs. 12 and 12 a.— Fragment of ditto B.M. No. 39,739. 



Figs. 13, 13 a, 13Z>.— Fragment of ditto.— B.M. No. 39,742. 



Figs. 14, 14 a, and 14 b. — Fragment of tarso-metatarsus. — B.M. No. 

 39,736. 



Figs. 15, 15 o, 15 b, 15 c, and 15 d. — Phalanx of large bird. — B.M. 

 No. 39,733. 



Among Dr. Falconer's papers were also found numerous outline 

 sketches on tracing paper of Sewalik fossils, &c., belonging to the Rumi- 

 nantia und lieptilia, intended for the Fauna, but which had never been 

 engraved. These tracings have been pasted on sheets of paper, and 

 deposited with the seventeen unpublished plates in the Library of the 

 Geological department of the British Museum. They are as follows : — 



A. RUMINANTIA. 



Sheet 1. — Foi;r views of skull of European biscn, recent. 



Sheet 2. — Four views of skull of Indian bison, recent. 



Sheet 3. — Four views of skull of wild Indian buffalo, recent. 



Sheet 4. — Four views of skull of Bubalus brachycerus, recent. 



Sheet 5. — Skull oi Bos i^rimigenius, for comparison. 



Sheet 6.- — Restoration ofhendof Bos Palceindicits, including anterior 

 portion of face and horn, figured in Plate G. figs. 6 and 7. 



Sheet 7. — Fragment of horn of Amphibcs acuticornis. 



Length of fragment along great curvature, 18 '2 in. Chord of lesser curvature, 

 11'8 in. Great diameter at larger end, 3'7 in. Thickness at ditto, 2'7 in. Cir- 

 cumference at smaller end, 8- in. 



Sheet 8. — Skull of Amphibos acuticornis (See antea, p. 547), including 

 fragments of both horns and both orbits, but greater part of face defi- 

 cient.— B.M. No. 36,666. 



Length of fragment, lO'l in. Between mastoid angles, 6'5 in. Between ex- 

 ternal angles of condyles, 3'8 in. Breadth of cranium beneath cores, 4-1 in. 



