MACKEE — ON FOSSIL BIRDS. 
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Trance. Moreover, accordiDg to Albinus, p. 105, it is said, that the 
image of the Pontiflf was adorned with a triple crown, and the ponti- 
fical robes were of tissue made of gold-like and purple thread, and 
the human eyes, ears, and nostrils, distinctly shown ; the figure of 
the Pontiff" sitting in a splendid chair, raising his right hand, on which 
even a jewel (Sf. Peter's ring) could be observed.* 
The original text is : — 
" Ecce enim Caudle avis vel Eemigem pennam in Lapide fissili Onin- 
gensi conspicuam, unicum, quod hactenus fit eognitura ex Volucrium Eegno 
superstes monumentum. Excipite Galium Gallinaceum, cujus meminit 
Agric.4,x. i^o^.f.p.STl, juxta PontificiisRomaniSarJa^ie^ iriplicem coroiiam 
in capite hahentes effigiem, de cujus tamen existentia merito dubitatur,quan- 
doquidem in Actis Publici Eislebiensibus ne minima quidem fiat mentio, 
teste CI. Dn. Gothofr., Mi/lio Memorab. Saxon. Suhterran. p. 5, fieri aiiteni 
debuisset Lapidis et non longe post E-eforraationem, anno nimirum 1539 
eruti, done dati primum Luthero postea Francisco I. Galliarum Eei^i ; 
praesertim si, quod Alhinis scribit p. 105, Pontijicis effigies ad fuit 
ornata triplici corona et vests Pontificiali, aureis quasi filis et purpura con- 
texta, OS, oculos, et nares hominis, referens, in sella splendida sedens, de- 
nique dextram manum sublevans, inquam tanquam gemmam contemplans 
intuehatur." 
It is difficult to know what jNIylius (1709) means in the following 
passage : — 
" 1 am bound to mention also that in the same quarry (Illmenau), 
a few years ago, a model has been discovered, which presented a hen 
very distinctly reproduced, and which is the more remarkable as 
even the intestines of the hen were imprinted." 
He follows these remarks with others about fish-remains, which 
are more likely to have been true fossils : — 
" Ich muss auch ferner mitberiihren, dass eben in diesem Wercke, vor 
weni^en Jahren noch, eine Niere, in welcher eine Henne ganz deutlich 
abgebildet war, gefunden worden, so um desswillen remarquahel, dass 
dieses Bergwerck diese Henne in seinen innersten Eingeweide expri- 
iniret."t 
Buttner, in his ' Eudera Diluvii Testes' (1710), says that "near 
Lubeck, there was once discovered a petrified branch of a tree, together 
with a bird's nest. A petrified twig, very nicely formed, is also shown 
in the Museum of Arts at Elorence." 
Eurther on is another passage: — "To this happy circumstance 
{i. e. a communication from the Pastor AVebel) I owe also a confirmed 
assurance respecting a bird's nest discovered t}iere (i. e. near Kindel- 
briick, in Thuringia), together with four or five white eggs (like 
quails' eggs), and a stone four yards round,^ which was very firm, 
and a figure of which was shown to me by another friend, as repre- 
sented on plate xxi. fig. vi." (see PI. XXll. Eig. 3, noUs). 
* In the British Museum copy the plate containing the figure of the bird from 
(Eningeu is wanting. 
t Mylius, ' Memorabilium Saxonise Subterranese,' Leipzig, 1709, p. 47. 
\ Literally, " 4 Ellen starckr 
