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THE GEOLOGIST. 
zu untersclieiden gewesen, aber alles selir verhartet. Hinter Wien soil 
ein Steinbruck seyn, worinnen man petrificirte Togel, auch Zimgen und 
Scliuabel von Adlern und andern Vogeln im Gestein sieht. Scheuchzee 
in s. Querel. et Vindie. Piscium stellt in der 11. Tab. eines Vogels Schwing- 
oder Schvrantz-Feder in einera Schiefer-Stein Ton Oeningen vor Augen. 
Zu Bottendorff' und £iititzel-See breclien nach Mylii Bericht, 1. c. p. 13, 
Schiefer-Steine mit Vogeln 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. JoH. Dan. Major, in his Dissertat. Epist. de Cancris et ^erp. 
Petrefact. § 47, p. 38, quotes amongst the animal remains of the 
mountains, and in the middle of solid marbles, heaks of birds, hut 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 s])ecimen of the remains 
of the ivinged genus known as yet, except the gallinaceous bird 
quoted by Agricola, lib. x. foss. cap. xv., and truly, this author quotes 
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 stoue, 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. JEx voliicvum genere pauca oppido fossilia adhuc in conspectura 
venerunt, sed tamen minima contemnenda. Joh. Dan. Major, in Dissert. 
Epistol. de Cancris et Serp. Petref. § 47, p. 38, inter partes animalium, 
quse in intimis ssepe montium visceribus, imo mediis marmorum solidorum 
corporibus, repert£e sunt, connumerat rostra avium, sed nullo auctore ant 
exemplo speciali nominato. Gravis tamen ipse scriptor est et fide dignus. 
CI. Scheuchzerus, in Quer. et. Vindic. Piscium, t. ii. exhibet camice avis vet 
remigem pennam in lapide fissili Oningensi conspiciiam, unicum quod hac- 
tenus sit cognitum ex volucrium regno superstes monumentum, excepto 
Gallo Gallinaceo, cujus meminit Agricola, lib. x. foss. cap.xv. Verum hie 
G-allos Gallinaceos ponit, tauquam plures in lapide fissili Hercynise Sylvse 
expresses, neque satis declarat, utrum vera magnitudine et partium orga- 
nica dispositione avem referat lapis, an sola lineamenta minoris formsR, a 
sucei mineralis ramulis uteunque 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, 
prfcside 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, Norinibergensis. 
Altorfl. Noricorum, 1725." 
