J. Mynde sc.
References to the Draught.
A, B, C, the head and bill, not in the same line or range with the rest of the bones.
a, b, A bone, with its processes, which I take to be similar to that, which includes the brain in fishes. The part between the bone and outlines appeared to be a smooth membrane; but was so thin, that in taking up it broke.
It is evident this is the upper part of the head inverted.
B, C, the superior maxilla intire, and in some places covered with the inferior one for four or five inches together. Where this happens, the vacuity is filled with matter like the rock in which it lays; and there are large teeth in each jaw, at such distances, and so posited, that those in one jaw fill up the vacuities in the other, and appear like one continued row, the mouth being shut.
Where there is only the superior maxilla remaining, there are no teeth; but the sockets are visible and deep, and at the same distances from each other as the teeth in the other part of the jaw. The tip or extremity of the bill was intire for four or five inches, having both maxillæ, with their teeth, and towards the point large fangs. Part of the bill and head were covered with the rock; which was removed before they appeared as in the figure.
A, D, F, G, cavities in the rock, about two inches deep, where, I suppose, the wanting vertebræ have laid, as they are exactly suited to have received them.
D, F, Ten vertebræ, from three to four half inches in diameter, and about three inches long, some of them separated in taking up. They were about two inches in the rock.
E, Here we observed something like bone to stretch from the vertebræ, and intending to take it up whole, begun to cut at what we thought a proper distance; but found we cut thro’ a bone; and with the vertebræ brought up three or four inches of the os femoris, with the ball, covered with the periosteum: but the animal has been so crushed hereabouts, that we could make little of the socket or os innominata. Several of the ribs came up with the vertebræ: they were broke, and laid parallel to the vertebræ; but not quite close, there being some of the rock between them. The periosteum is visible on many of the bones.