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35325 a. A similar fragment, of rather smaller size. 



35216. Fragment of the shaft of a wing-bone of a large species. 



Purchased, 1859. 



35228, -328-9. Five fragments of shafts of smaller wing-bones. 



Purchased, 1859-60. 



R. 487. The imperfect terminal phalangeal of one of the clawed 

 digits of the manus. Very similar to the specimen 

 figured by Seeley, op. cit. pi. viii. fig. 16. 



Presented by Sir R. Owen, K.C.B 



41784. Termination of a bone said to belong to the second pha- 

 langeal of the ulnar digit of the manus. 



Purchased, 1869. 



43988. The proximal portion of the femur of a small species. Agrees 

 closely with the entire bone figured by Seeley, op. cit. 

 ~pl. viii. figs. 5, 6. Purchased, 1872. 



35230. The distal half of the left femur of a form agreeing closely 

 in size with the preceding. Purchased, 1859. 



R. 478. The distal portion of a rather smaller left femur. 



Presented by Sir M. Owen, K.C.B. 



35230 a. The proximal portion of a tibia. Slightly smaller than 

 the specimen figured by Seeley, op. cit. pi. viii. figs. 13, 

 14. Purchased, 1859. 



C. Species typically from the Gault. 



Ornithochirus daviesi (Owen ] ). 

 Syn. Pterodactylus daviesi, Owen 2 . 



A species agreeing approximately in size with 0. fittoni, but with 

 smaller and more numerons teeth ; it appears highly probable that 

 this form is really identical with 0. denticulatus, Seeley 3 , from the 

 Cambridge Greensand. 



Hab. Europe (England). 



1 Mesozoic Eeptilia (Mon. Pal. Soc), pt. i. p. 2 (1874).— Pterodactylus. 



2 Loc. cit. 



3 'Ornithosauria,' p. 122, pi. xii. figs. 8, 9 (1870). 



