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THE MUSEUM. 



By forcing in the tang of the blade 

 or by rough usage of the completed 

 tool, the handle has been split at the 

 perforation in four places, exactly as 

 an unferruled file or chisel- handle of 

 wood would check with similar usage. 

 A few such handles fashioned from 

 sections of antler have been reported 

 by Dr. Metz and Protessor Putnam 

 from mounds in the Miami Valley, 

 Ohio, but I have yet to learn of any 

 example from this vicinity or State. 

 As to ffint knives, a few fine examples 

 have been received from Camp Caya- 

 dutta, an exceptionally fine example 

 of very rare form having been procur- 

 ed at this site by Mr. William Fisher 

 on May 30, 1895, and on the occasion 

 of my last visit I had the good fortune 

 to find a larger example of a very 

 unique form with a tang, but far too 

 large to fit the above descibed handle. 

 These two flint knives will be describ- 

 ed and figured in a later paper. 



Many other pieces and fragments of 

 antler have been found at Camp Caya- 

 dutta, nearly all showing some traces 

 of cutting or abrasion. I have from 

 this site a large basal section of antler 

 having a channel or groove over 4 

 inches in length which has been cut or 

 scraped to a depth of | of an inch 

 with the apparent idea of dividing the 

 section longitudinally. The stria- 

 made by the flint (.■') tool in cutting 

 are very plainly to be seen in the sides 

 of the groove. On one side of this 

 same specimen can be seen where a 

 prong or point has been separated by 

 cutting with a stone axe. 



In these days and in this vicinity the 

 sight of a flight of wild geese is such a 

 novelty that it is always noticed and is 

 sure to bring out many comments. 



Maintaining their V-shaped lines in- 

 tact in mid-air in spite of high winds 

 such a sight is well worth pausing to 

 observe. 



Just dusk on a Sunday eve in No- 

 vember past, an unusually large flock 

 or aggregation of flocks passed over 

 this vicinity flying very low and to- 

 wards the southwest. This flight 

 numbered from 150 to 200 and was 

 made up of a number of V-shaped 

 alignments (five or six) flying in irreg- 

 ular order as to each other and with 

 a few scattering geese in lonely flight 

 but still keeping abreast of the proces- 

 sion; perhaps marshals. 



A very noticeable peculiarity of this 

 flight was that some of the V-shaped 

 alignments were made up of a double 

 row of geese on either side as though 

 one flock had come up from the rear 

 into the angle of a preceeding V and 

 had retained this position while in 

 continuous flight. Has this been not- 

 iced before.' 



During the last week in November 

 many small flocks were noticed flying 

 southward. On a bright day in the 

 early part of the month my attention 

 was called to a flock in the character- 

 istic V-shaped form, passing to the 

 east. Though flying quite high their 

 honking could be plainly heard and far 

 above them at a tremendous elevation, 

 in fact just discernable, was a second 

 and much larger flock passing in the 

 same direction. 



Dr. J. D. Hooker F. R. S., travel- 

 ing in the Snowy Himalayas on the 

 frontier of Thibet, speaks of viewing 

 from the summit of Mount Bhomteo 

 that vast, desolate and nearly un- 

 known region toward the valley of the 

 Varu, where the kite and the raven 

 wheel through the air; and still higher 



