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dug up at Sproatley about sixty years ago whilst a drain was being 
cut past Amen Field. A large celt, cast in solid bronze, and 
weighing 2} lbs., I have recently examined. It is 64 inches long, 
and has a cutting edge nearly 4 inches long. ‘This specimen was 
unearthed at Burstwick in 1842. Mr. T. Boynton also has 
several bronze weapons and implements from Holderness, 
including a fine spear-head from the lake-dwellings at Ulrome. 
LarGE NUMBER OF EGGs OF THE BLUE TiITMOUSE.—I lately 
saw ina Holderness vicarage garden (Mappleton, near Hornsea) 
a nest of this bird (Parus ceruldeus) in a disused pump, with 
fourteen eggs. The hen was constantly seen during the last 
month, going to its nest by the hole under the pump handle. 
When the lid on the top of the pump was occasionally lifted up 
the bird was seen sitting on six or seven eggs, hissing like a 
regular billy-biter. She sat on these eggs hopetully, we trust, for 
along time. At length the Vicar took out one or two eggs, and 
found them addled. ‘They had never been fertilised, because no 
cock-bird had been seen for many weeks in the garden, which is a 
mile from the nearest shrubbery and plantation at Rowlston Hall, 
where there are generally two or three nests every year. The 
poor bird continued afterwards laying eggs until there are now as 
above stated, fourteen eggs.—B. B. HawortuH-Bootu, Hullbank 
Hall, Hull. * 
SKULL oF ELEPHANT AT KILNSEA.—At our meeting on 
March st, 1899, a series of geological and other specimens 
collected from the beach at Kilnsea by Mr. D. Murray of that 
place was exhibited. The most conspicuous object was a huge 
skull of an elephant, which, though slightly waterworn, was ina 
very good state of preservation, but the teeth and jaws were 
missing. Its measurements are :—length, 15 inches, breadth, 164 
inches, height, 12} inches. The specimen appears to have 
belonged to a young and recent individual, the bone still retaining 
the organic matter. It is certainly strange that such an object 
should have been found at Kilnsea. Some few years ago, in a 
storm, the carcase of an elephant was stranded on the shore at 
Withernsea, a few miles north of Kilnsea, and it was buried by 
the coastguards. This had been thrown overboard from a 
passing vessel. If the specimen in question is not part of this 
elephant, it is possibly from another which might have shared the 
same fate. It is stated, however, that the skull had been washed 
out of the cliffs, in which case, of course, the above explanation 
will not suffice. A single tooth would have helped us out of the 
difficulty, but, as already explained, not one remained in the skull. 
As there is some doubt as to where it really came from, nothing 
can be said at present in reference to the age of the find, or the 
species to which it belongs.—T.5. 
* From ‘‘ The Naturalist,” Sept., 1899. 
