Excerpt from Collected Papers of C. Herbert Hurst, 1895, Vol. 1Apart from a single feather, only two specimens of art-mme are known, and it is possible that these may not be identical in species or even in genus. So far as we know them, the differences between the two appear, to those who are best qualified to judge, to be too small to justify separation into two species. Though both were found in Bavaria, I shall refer to them as the Berlin specimen and the London specimen respectively.It is not convenient to begin with a description of the external form of the bird, as is customary with recent species, for that external form can only be guessed at with reasonable chance of guessing accu rately after a careful consideration of the structure of such parts as are still preserved. This is even more conspicuously true of the habits of the animal.Of the skeleton, if we assume the two specimens to be so nearly related that the characters exhibited in either may be taken as true of both, we have quite an extensive knowledge.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.