Additional observations on *Eoenantiornis*

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

The entire head seems to be enclosed in feathers. At first sight, the tip 
of the snout seems to be an exception; but firstly, the snout is crushed, 
so that the tip may be squished forwards and to the right, and secondly 
(see fig. 3), the margins of the skull lie _under_ the surface of the slab 
and have been prepared free, so if there were feathers around the very tip 
of the snout, they are now gone, or at least invisible in cross-section.

"The rostralmost portion [...] [the premaxilla] does not carry any teeth."  
(p. 1333)
I can't test this from fig. 3, but (at 200 % magnification in the pdf) an 
additional alveolus in front of the others seems possible. There's a dark 
spot there, anyway.

Uncinates are present, as in *Longipteryx* and *Longirostravis*, both of 
which are proclaimed to be euenantiornithines. Articulated gastralia are 
also present.

The 3rd finger seems to have only one phalanx... but that bone is split 
lengthwise (fig. 6), so there's probably no hope of finding an articular 
surface at its distal end in the improbable case that there was one. Maybe 
the tip is missing altogether.

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