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HISTORICAL PALEONTOLOGY. 



Oolite), there has been discovered, however, the at present 

 unique skeleton of a Bird well known under the name of the 

 ArchcBopteryx macrwa (figs. i8i, 182). The only known 



Fig. xZi.—ArcJuBopteyyx jnacrura, showing tail and tail-feathers, with detached bones. 

 Reduced. From the Lithographic Slate of Solenhofen. 



specimen — now in the British Museum — unfortunately does 

 not exhibit the skull; but the fine-grained matrix has pre- 



Fig. 182. — Restoration oi Archaopteryx macriira. (After Owen.) 



served a number of the other bones of the skeleton, along with 

 the impressions of the tail and wing feathers. From these 

 remains we know that Archceopteryx differed in some remark- 



