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referring to other discoveries : " I myself, partaking in the ex- 

 cavations of still later years, have found the following speci- 

 mens, all of them in kitchen-middens of the Stone Age : — 



Sejro,a small island to the north-west of Zeeland, the lower 

 parts of two right humeri. 



Havno, on the northern shore of the Manager Fjord (for- 

 merly an island), two right humeri and one ulna, as men- 

 tioned at p. 61, 'Fuglene ved de danske, Fyr 1, 1894.' 



Ertebolle, on the shore of the Limfjord, south of Logstor, 

 the lower part of a left humerus. 

 I am just engaged in a review of the large mass of bones 

 from kitchen - middens brought together by the late Prof. 

 Steenstrup, but hitherto mostly undetermined. Bones of the 

 Great Auk are turning up there, so that it will be useless now 

 to give a list of the specimens from the old finding-places." 



In the paper I have referred to by C. G. Joh. Petersen, 

 Herluf Winge, and Oluf Winge on the " Animal Eemains from 

 dwellings of the earlier and later Stone Age," they refer the 

 deposits in the kitchen -midden at Meilgaard to the earlier 

 Stone Age, so we may naturally expect to find remains of 

 Alca impennis Linn, being discovered in the kitchen-middens 

 of later date. 



Mould or cast of egg of Alca impennis Linn, found in a 

 geological deposit. — Having heard from Mr Bidwell on 16th 

 June 1898 that Herr Herluf Winge had mentioned to him 

 that a hollow cast or mould of an egg of Alca impennis Linn, 

 had been found in a geological deposit, I asked Herr Herluf 

 Winge kindly to send me particulars. If such a discovery 

 has been made, it is, I believe, the first time any remains of 

 the Great Auk have been discovered in a geological deposit, 

 and must take back the existence of the Great Auk to a 

 much earlier period than most of those interested in the bird 

 supposed. 



Herr Herluf Winge wrote me on 2nd July 1898 as 

 follows : " A hollow cast of an egg of the Great Auk, con- 

 taining some colour-markings, was found in a deposit from 

 the sub-glacial period in the southern part of Sweden, to the 

 north-east of Falsterbo, by members of the Swedish Geological 

 Survey. Through personal acquaintance the discovery was 

 made known in Copenhagen, and the cast was determined by 



