04 ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 



me from doing more at present than mention that flint hatchets 

 closely resembling those from Amiens and Abbeville, were found at 

 Hoxne in Suffolk, and described by Mr. Frere, in 1797. Some of the 

 oval form were found in Kent-Hole, near Torquay. In the British 

 Museum is a similar specimen which was found with the skeleton of 

 an elephant in London many years ago, and more recently a few have 

 been discovered near Heculvers by Mr. Leech, Mr. Evans, and Mr. 

 Prestwich, at Biddenham in Bedfordshire by Mr. Wyatt, at Grodalming 

 in Surrey by Mr. Whitburn, and at Abbot's Langley by Mr. Evans. 

 "We may reasonably hope that the persevering researches of these 

 gentlemen, and especially of Messrs. Evans and Prestwich, will be 

 rewarded by similar discoveries in other places. 

 Description of Plate VII. 



Fig. 1. A fiint axe from a tumulus, j Nat. size. 



Fig. 2. Another form of stone axe with a hole for a handle, ^ Nat. size. 



Fig. 3. A flint saw, \ Nat. size- 



Fig. 4. A flint sword, s ; Nat. size. 



Fig. 5. A flint chisel, \ Nat. size. 



Fig. 6. One of the "cores" from which the flint flakes are splintered, \ Nat. size. 



Fig. 7. One of the flakes, \ Nat. size. 



Figs 8-9. Rude axes from the Kjokkenmodding at Havelse, \ Nat. size. 



Fig. 10. Flint axe from drift at Moulin Quignon near Abbeville, \ Nat. size. 



Fig. 1 1 • Flint axe from Abbeville, showing that the part stained white is 

 parallel to the present surfaces, and that the weathering has taken place 

 since the flint was worked into its present shape, £ Nat. size. 



Fi"-. 12. Sling-stone from the Kjokkenmodding at Havelse, \ Nat. size. 



XI. Report on the Present State of our Knowledge oe the 



Species of Aptertx living in New Zealand. By Philip Lutley 

 Sclater, M.A., Ph. D., F.R.S., and Dr. F. von Hochstetter. 

 [Head at the Meeting of the British Association, September, 1861.] 



There appears to be evidence of the present existence of at least 

 four species of birds of the genus Apteryx in New Zealand, con- 

 cerning which we beg to offer the following remarks, taking them 

 one after the other in the order that they have become successively 

 known. 



1. Apteryx atjstralis. 



Apteryx ausiralis, Shaw, Nat. Misc. xxiv. pi. 1057, 1058, and Gen. 

 Zool. xiii. p. 71. 

 „ Bartlett, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 275. 



,' „ Yarrell, Trans. Zool. Soc. I. p. 71, pi. 10. 



The Apteryx australis was originally made known to science about 

 the year 1813, from an example obtained in New Zealand by Captain 

 Barclay of the ship "Providence." This bird, which was deposited 

 in the collection of the late Lord Derby, was afterwards described at 

 greater length in 1833, in the Transactions of the Zoological Society 

 by Mr. Yarrell, and was still, at that date, the only specimen of this 

 singular form known to exist. Examples of Apteryges subsequently 

 obtained, though generally referred to the present species, have 



