MACKIE — ON FOSSIL BIRDS. 



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weisser Eab. In denen Schweitzerischen Landen liabe noch nichts ge- 

 funden ; aus den Oeningiscken Steinbruch aber kan icb zeigen eine wol 

 ausgedruckte Vogelfeder, welche babe abbilden lassen in Querel. Pise, 

 p. 14." 



Yolkmann, in 1720, publisbed bis ' Silesia Subterranea,' at Leipzig. 

 In it be says : — 



" § VI. All tbese phases are common also with birds, insects, 

 worms, and vermin. Mtlius, in bis Memor. Sax. Subterr. pi. i. 

 relat. vi. p. 47, records a hen, which was discovered a few years ago 

 in the quarries of Illmenau, and which he exhibits on plate iv. n. i. 

 p. 74, such as it is to be seen in the stone. — Baccius reports in his 

 ' Thermis,' lib. v. c. 4, fol. 282, having seen a petrified hen together 

 with her eggs, discovered in a salt-pit. — Valvasor, according to 

 what he says in his description of the principality of Crain (die Ehre 

 des Herzogthums Crain), lib. iv. c. 2, p. 478, discovered near Landes- 

 preis, in a ditch, on the mountain, amongst many sea-shells and other 

 petrefactions, a bird's nest with a small bird sitting on four eggs, which 

 he presented to M. Henry Garbusat, at Lyons, in France. — Buttner 

 exhibits in 1. c. tab. xxi. p. 218, a bird's nest, containing four or five 

 eggs, like quail-eggs, in a stone, four yards in circumference, dis- 

 covered at Kindelbruck, and he mentions also in the same place, 

 that in the same tufa bluish eggs, like ducks' eggs, have been dis- 

 covered, which, when the shell was opened, the white and the yolk 

 were quite distinctly to be seen, but rather hard. Near Vienna it is 

 said a quarry exists where petrified birds, tongues and beaks of 

 eagles, and other petrefacta are to be found. — Scheuchzer in his 

 Querel. et Vindic. Piscium, represents in plate 11, a beam- or tail- 

 feather from Oeningen. At Bottendorff, and on the Kuntzel lake, 

 there are, according to Mtlius, 1. c. p. 13, slate-stones containing 

 birds and beaks, to be found," etc. etc. 



We give the original : — 



" § VI. Alle diese fata baben aucb die Vogel, Insecta, Gewurrae und 

 Ungeziefer gebabt. Mtlius, in s. Memor. Sax. Subterr. pi. i. relat. iv. 

 p. 47, gedencket einer Henne, die vor wenigen Jabren in einer Berg- 

 Nieren in dem Illmenauer Berg-Werck gefunden worden, welche Er 

 tab. iv. sub num. i. p. 74, wie sie in dem Steine zu seben im Kupffer vor- 

 gestellt. Baccius, de Thermis, lib. v. c. 4. fol. 282, erzehlet, dass Er eine 

 versteinerte Henne mit Eyern geseben, die man in den Salz-Gruben ge- 

 funden. T. Weicbard Valvasoe bat (davon Er in der Ehre des Herzog- 

 thums Crain, lib. iv. c. 2, p. 478, gedacht) bey Landes-Preis iiber dem 

 Berge in einem Graben nebst vielen Meer-Muscheln und anderen ver- 

 steinerten Stuck en ein V ogel-N est mit einem kleinen auf den Eyern 

 sitzenden Vogel angetroffen, welches Er dem Mons. Henry Garbusat Each 

 Lyon in Franckreich gescbickt. Buttneeus, 1. c. weiset in der XXI. Tab. 

 ad p. 218, ein versteinertes Vogel-Nest, darinnen 4 oder 5, weisse Eyer 

 gelegen, den Wachtel-Eyern gleich, in einem Gestein, das 4 Ellen starck 

 gewesen, von Kindelbruck, und pag. ead. meldet Er, dass eben in diesem 

 Topho man ehemals blaulichte Eyer den Enten-Eyern gleich gefunden, 

 darinnen als man sie zerstupfet, die Scbale, das Weisse und Dotter wohl 



