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ancestor of the bird and the dinosaur should be regarded as a 

 member of a distinct order or as a primitive dinosaur. Though in 

 some few respects it no doubt differed from any known dinosaur, the 

 differences would be too few to found a new order on, and I am of 

 opinion that when discovered it will be regarded as the representative 

 of a new sub-order only of the Dinosauria. 



