On a new Species of Pterodactyl found in the Upper Chalk of Kent.

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I have recently obtained from the upper chalk of Kent some remains of a large species of Pterodactylus . The bones consist of— 1. The fore part of the head as far as about the middle of the cavitas narium , with a corresponding portion of the under jaws,—many of the teeth remaining in their sockets. (See Plate, fig. 1.) 2. A fragment of a bone of the same animal, apparently a part of the coracoid. (Fig. 2.) 3. A portion of what appears to be one of the bones of the auricular digit, from a chalk-pit at Halling. (Fig. 3.) 4. A portion of a similar bone, from the same locality as No. 1. (Fig. 4.) 5. The head of a long bone, probably the tibia, belonging to the same animal as the head No. 1. (Fig. 5.) 6. A more perfect bone of the same description, not from the same animal, but found at Halling. (Fig. 6.) The latter specimen appears to me to be the same description of bone as that described by Professor Owen in the Geological Transactions (2nd Ser. vol. vi. p. 411, and pl. 39. fig. 1). The mutilated condition of the figured specimen would not allow Professor Owen to speak of its identity with the bird tribe with great certainty, and he at the same time points out its discrepant characters.

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