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zu unterscheiden gewesen, aber alles sekr verhartet. Hinter Wieu soli 

 ein Steinbruck seyn, worinnen man petrificirte Yogel, auch Zungen und 

 Schnabel von Adlern und andern Yogeln im Gestein sieht. Scheuchzer 

 ins. Querel. et Vindie. Piscium stellt in der 11. Tab. eines Yogels Schwing- 

 oder Schwantz-Feder in einem Schiefer- Stein von Oeningen vor Augen. 

 Zu Bottendorff und Xiintzel-See brechen nach Mtlii Berieht, 1. c. p. 13, 

 S chief er-Steine mit Yogeln und Bienen," etc. etc. 



Baier, 1722, says in his ' Fossilia Diluvii Universalis Monumenta,'* 

 page 20 : — 



" § XII. Of the winged kind there have been but very few fossil 

 remains discovered as yet, but they are not therefore to be under- 

 valued. J oh. Dan. Major, in his Dissertat. Epist. de Cancris et Serp. 

 Petrefact. § 47, p. 38, quotes amongst the animal remains of the 

 mountains, and in the middle of solid marbles, beaks of birds, but he 

 mentions no authority, neither does he give any figures; he is, how- 

 ever, himself a serious and a trustworthy writer. CI. Scheuchzer, in 

 his Quer. et Yindic. Piscium, tab. ii., shows a tail of a bird or rowing- 

 feather in a fossil stone at Oeningen, the only specimen of the remains 



many fowls in fossil-stone discovered in the forest of Hercynia, and 

 he does not only proclaim highly the magnitude and the disposition 

 of all the organic parts of the bird transferred to the stone, but also 

 the very lineaments of minor form imprinted by the mineral juice. 

 Such a hen discovered in the stone-quarries of Henneberg, in Saxony, 

 is described by Mylius in his Saxon. Subterr. relat. vi. et x. p. 74, 

 fig. 2. Be it as it may, for greater certitude the laborious Buttner, 

 p. 218, describes thus the birds'-nests and eggs discovered in the 

 tufa-quarries of Thuringia, and which deserve notice." 



We append the original passage : — 



" § XII. Ex volucrum genere pauca oppido fossilia adhuc in conspectum 

 venerunt, sed tamen minime contemnenda. Joh. Dan. Majoe, in Dissert. 

 Epistol. de Cancris et Serp. Petref. § 47, p. 38, inter partes animalium, 

 quae in intimis ssepe montium visceribus, imo mediis marmorum solidorum 

 corporibus, repertse sunt, connumerat rostra avium, sed nullo auctore aut 

 exemplo speciali nominato. Gravis tamen ipse scriptor est et fide dignus. 

 CI. Scheuchzerus, in Quer. et. Yindic. Piscium, t. ii. exhibet caudce avis vel 

 remigem pennam in lapide fissili Oningensi conspicuam, unicum quod hac- 

 tenus sit cognitum ex volucrium regno superstes monumentum, excepto 

 GaUo Gallinaceo, cujus meminit Agricola, lib. x. foss. cap.xv. Yerum hie 

 Gallos Gallinaceos ponit, tanquam plures in lapide fissili Hercynise Sylvaa 

 expressos, neque satis declarat, utrum vera magnitudine et partium orga- 

 nica dispositione avem referat lapis, an sola lineamenta minoris formae, a 

 succi rmneralis ramulis utcunque efficta ; cujusmodi gallinam in saxo 

 fodinarum Hennebergicarum depictam exhibet Mylii Saxon. Subterr. 



* Brit. Mus. 458. a. 14. " Q. D. B. V. Fossilia Diluvii Universalis Monumenta, 

 prseside Johanne Gulielmo Baiero S. Theol. D. et P. P. eruditis excutienda sistet 

 a.d. 19 Martii A. R. S. ciol. sec. xii. Geokg. Christoph. Eichler, Norimbergensis. 

 Altorfl, Noricorum, 1725/' 



