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ornitholite from Montmartre, of the family Gallinacece (v.), showing the 
under-beak, its right ramus nearly entire, portions of both sides of the 
base of the cranium, vertebrae of neck, right clavicle, and parts of the left, 
small portion of the omoplate, the sternum much crushed and disfigured, 
and an equally disfigured impression of the pelvis, the tibia, and many 
other intelligible parts ; 28, the four phalanges of a medius of a bird of 
prey, like their analogues in the buzzard (ii.) ; 29, lower mandible ; 30, a 
' frog-bone ' (junction of the two clavicles) ; 31, coracoid bone ; 32, another 
coracoid ; 33, metacarpal and phalanges ; 34, inferior mandible of a bird 
(v.) ; 35, humerus (v. ?) ; 36, another humerus ; 37, small humerus of (x.) 
and 38, leg and foot of the same species. No. 33 ; 39, small bird's foot 
(ix. ?) ; 40, metacarpal of bird of prey of large size, and with long wings of 
the dimensions of the bald-buzzard, probably the same species as JSTo. 24 
(xi.) ; 41, another metacarpal of a bird of prey, much smaller, and having 
much shorter wings, probably of the same species as No. 48 ; 42, skeleton 
from Montmartre (ix.),the wing extended, humerus nearly entire, sternum 
crushed, feet and right leg well shown, as are also other bones ; 43, well- 
preserved and characteristic skeleton from Montmartre, of the same 
species (ix.) as the foregoing, showing the head and beak, portion of 
the 'frog-bone,' back-bone, ribs, wing-bones, legs and feet, and other 
parts, very little disturbed from their natural condition ; 43, mutilated- 
humerus of a singular species, and like that of the screech-owl ; 44, ra- 
dius ; 45, well-preserved foot ; 46, badly-preserved foot of same species as 
No. 11 (v.)." 
It will be seen then that Cuvier founds on these bird-remains no 
fewer than ten species. His first on the foot, described by him 
in 1800, in which the thumb or hind-toe is wanting (No. 10) ; but we 
see in the specimen the little bone, which carries it in many birds. 
These characters are much more complete in No. 8 ; the femur in 
that specimen is wanting, but the tibia is much more entire, and the 
thumb and the three other digits are very complete, and furnished 
W'ith all the articulations they ought to have ; the foot of this speci- 
men having the tibia and tarsus a little longer than the first, is made 
another species by Cuvier. Of M. de Lametherie's specimen, Cuvier 
makes a third species; of M. Elluin's a fourth; of the foot No. 15, 
which he thinks somewhat smaller than the last, a fifth ; of No. 38 a 
sixth ; of the four phalanges forming the medius of a bird of prey. 
No. 28, allied to the buzzard, a seventh ; of the phalange of the great 
bird. No. 14, an eighth ; and of the small foot, No. 39, a ninth 
species, all founded on the debris of the walking limbs alone. He 
founds three other species on the beaks in Nos. 5, 29, 39, respectively. 
We can scarcely analyse further Cuvier's work without giving ad- 
ditional figures, which our f;»st-closiug limits will not allow. A¥e can 
therefore only add that our Plates give examples of— No. 43 (PI. III., 
fig. 1) ; No. 42 (PI. VI., fig. 3) ; No. 41 (PI. VI., fig. 2) ; No. 39 
(PL VI., fig. 1) ; No. 25 (PI. VI., fig. 4) ; No. 20, anterior and pos- 
terior views (PI. VL, fig. 5) ; No. 15 (PI. VI., fig. 7) ; No. 13 a 
(PI. VI., fig. 6) ; No. 13 b (PI. IV., fig. 2) ; and regret being cut off 
in the middle of our survey of the bibliography and present state 
of ornithological palaeontology, the only manageable portion for any- 
