. Les animaux du passé, un compte rendu de certaines des créatures du monde ancien. e Exaipple est dans le Musée Royal cf NAT-ural History, Berlin. La plus grande collection d'oiseaux-de-bain, y compris les types de Hesperomis, Ichthyomiset autres, se trouve au musée de l'Université de Yale, à Newhaven. Le Musée national des États-Unis à Wash-ington a un squelette de Hesperomis, et l'Université d'État du Kansas, à Lawrence, a l'ex-ample montrant les impressions des plumes. OISEAUX DES 89 anciens lointains descriptions scientifiques de ces oiseaux le lecteur se réfère à l'article d'Owens sur l'Archasopteryx o

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. Animals of the past, an account of some of the creatures of the ancient world. e exaimple is in the Royal Museum cf Nat-ural History, Berlin. The largest collection of toothedbirds, including the types of Hesperomis, Ichthyomisand others, is in the Yale University Museum, at NewHaven. The United States National Museum at Wash-ington has a fine mounted skeleton of Hesperomis, andthe State University of Kansas, at Lawrence, has the ex-ample showing the impressions of feathers. BIRDS OF OLD 89 Far scientific descriptions of these birds the reader isreferred to Owens paper On the Archasopteryx of vonMeyer, with a Description of the Fossil Remains, etc., inthe Transactions of the Philosophical Society qfLmtdonfor 1863, page 33, and Odontomithes, a Monographof the Extinct Toothed Birds of North America, by O.C. Marsh. Mitch popular and scientific informationconcerning the early birds is to be fownd in NewtorCs Dictionary of Birds, and The Story of Bird Life^by W. P. Pycraft; the Structure amd Life of Birds^by F. W. Headley; The Story of the Birds, by J.Newton Baskett.. Fig. 17. — Archzeopteryx as Restored by Mr. Pycraft. VI THE DINOSAURS Shapes of all sorts and sises, great and small. A few million years ago, geologists and phys-icists do not agree upon the exact number, although both agree upon the millions, whenthe Rocky Mountains were not yet bom andthe now bare and arid western plains a landof lakes, rivers, and luxuriant vegetation, theregion was inhabited by a race of strange andmighty reptiles upon whom science has be-stowed the appropriate name of Dinosaurs, orterrible lizards. Our acquaintance with the Dinosaurs iscomparatively recent, dating from the earlypart of the nineteenth century, and in Amer-ica, at least, the date may be set at 1818, whenthe first Dinosaur remains were found in theVaUey of the Connecticut, although they nat-urally were not recognized as such, nor had the 90

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