196 A. E. Verrill—The Bermuda Islands; Geology. 
Three eggs were found close to the bones, and similarly imbedded. 
Another egg was found in a block of limestone near Hamilton.”* 
A fossil egg about the size of a hen’s egg was found by Mr. H. 
J. Zuill of Orange Grove, Smith’s Parish, Sept., 1903, in breaking 
stone by the roadside. \ (See Royal Gazette, Sept. 5, 1903.) 
Mr. A. Agassiz mentions a fossil egg (as that of a tropic bird) 
found in a quarry by the Middle Road in Devonshire, formerly pre- 
served in the government building. I examined the same specimen, 
but should be unwilling to say it was the egg of a tropic bird. It 
may have been a shearwater. 
The most notable discovery of the bones of sea-turtles is that men- 
tioned by Nelson, in 1840. There is no certainty as to their species 
and they may have been of recent origin: 
“Turtle bones were also procured from the North Bastion coral 
rag, and from the sands at Elbow Bay. The turtles seem, like the 
poor bird before mentioned, to have been buried while depositing its 
eggs, as the two skeletons when first discovered were entire and 
undisturbed. Their dimensions were nine feet in length and seven 
in breadth, as I was informed by an eye-witness.” 
The earliest records of the Bermuda settlement mention the great 
size of the turtles as found living at that time.t 
Probably they were the green turtle (Chelonia mydas), which 
ceased to breed here probably more than 200 years ago. 
ce. Marine Shells in the Paget Formation. 
Livona pica and Genobita diogenes (Linn.). 
Ficure 60. 
This well known large, thick, pearl-lined, West Indian shell is one 
of the most common and conspicuous of the fossils of this formation. 
Where the rock is feebly consolidated or sandy, these shells often 
weather out in considerable numbers and are sometimes nearly per- 
fect, the blotches of dark color still showing in many specimens. As 
stated above (p. 158), they were unquestionably carried up from 
the sea shores originally by the land hermit-crab ( Cenobita diog- 
enes), which is still living here in considerable numbers. But many 
of the shells have probably been used again and again, even after 
they have been weathered out of previous deposits. 
* See also Hurdis, Nat. Hist. of the Bermudas, p. 373, 1897. 
+ See Verrill, ‘‘ The Bermuda Islands,”’ p. 279 (691), 281. 
t See Verrill, ‘‘ The Bermuda Islands,” I, p. 280, 1902. 
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