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Twites.--I was highly pleased to see a large flock of this bird on Palé 
Grouse Moor, on the 22nd of October. They were not to be seen after. 
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker,—Here at Palé, on the 27th of November, 
Neither Widgeon nor Shoveller stayed with us last summer. 
I found in a bush the nest of a Dormouse, with three young half-grown 
mice, here, on the 4th of June. They were in the old nest of a Chaffinch, 
altered to suit the purpose. 
1900. 
Hawfinch shot at Bala, on the 3rd of February. A pair nesting at 
Llandderfel in May. 
A flock of 20 Pochards on Bala Lake, April 4th. I have no record of 
so many of these ducks having been seen here before. 
I observed a large flock of Twites here, April 7th. I suppose they were 
migrating northward. 
A white-tailed Eagle was seen on a hil farm, near here, on the 15th or 
16th of April. It killed a lamb, and after a feed perched on a fence, The 
farmer had seen the specimen at Bala, and was sure it was one like it. He 
did not try to shoot it. 
There were two nests of Merlins on Palé Grouse Moors in May. 
A pair of Peregrines nested on Arenig Mountain the same month. 


HUMAN REMAINS IN THE BOULDER-CLAY AT SALTNEY, 
By Mr. ROBT. NEWSTEAD, F.E.S., Curator of the Museum. 

Being an Abstract of a Paper read before the Soczety, 
October 26th, 1899. 
(WITH A PLATE). 

On July 21st, 1899, a workman who was engaged in excavating clay for 
the manufacture of bricks at Mr. Morton Browne’s works at Saltney, 
Chester, discovered what appeared to him, a large stone in the face of the 
clay section. The man dislodged the object with his pick-axe, and was 
startled to find he had unearthed a human skull, My second boy, who 
happened to be on the spot at the time, immediately brought me the news 
of the discovery. Fortunately, my residence was within a few paces of 
the scene, which enabled me to take immediate steps for the preservation 
of the remains, and also to make the necessary observations of the matrix 
in which they occurred. I found a section of the clay, about four feet thick, 
had been freshly broken away, and with it the greater part of the skeleton ; 
but the skull, together with the phalanges of the right and left hands, was 
left intact in the solid wall of clay, There was a most perfect impression 
of the skull in the clay, which I removed and preserved, and I also dug out 
the phalanges of both hands, with the adjacent remains of Los longifrons, 
various species of mollusca, &c., and am, therefore, able to register their 
exact position in the deposit, which is of the utmost importance, On 
carefully examining the freshly fallen clay a number of human bones were 
also rescued, but as these did not, by any means, complete the skeleton, I 
ventured to hope that others had been removed when the previous section 
was worked, I was informed that the stones, &c. irom this section, as 
also from other sections, were thrown in a heap near the mill-house, and on 
carefully searching the latter I found, ear the surface, a number of human 
bones presumably belonging to the same individual, as there were no 
