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witliiii the cavern. A few days later he returned to the 

 place ; broke off several of the stalactites, and carried them 

 to the Bermuda Museum with the hope of selling them. 

 Mr. Mowbray at once recognized that the specimens were 

 of an exceptionally fine type, so he planned a trip to 

 this new cave for the purpose of exploring it more or less 

 thoroughly. He says : " It turned out to be a cave of 

 enormous proportions for a Bermuda cave. While looking 

 around, I found the skull of a rat, the skull of a bat, and 

 some bird-bones. On swimming across the lake to the 

 other side of the cave, 1 discovered embedded in the Cfilcite 

 the leg -bones of a bird. On careful examination, I located 

 a number of others, some three or more inches in the calcite 

 floor. I decided to retuin and remove them ; and in two 

 or three days after the first visit, which was the second 

 day of May, 1907, I removed the bones, and made some 

 photographs of myself removing the bones and showing the 

 interior of the cave." 



Through Mr. Mowbray's kindness, I am enabled to repro- 

 duce two of his photographs — the ones he speaks of — as 

 illustrations to this article (PI. XX.). The upper one shows 

 the entrance to the new cave described in the last few para- 

 graphs, while the lower one gives a view of its interior, with 

 Mr. Mowbray at work cutting out the bird-bones from the 

 calcite floor. Doubtless there are a great matiy very 

 interesting and important discoveries yet to be made in this 

 beautiful cavern ; and it will well repay some good, scientific 

 explorer to thoroughly investigate it, with the view of 

 obtaining some of this valuable material for scientific 

 description and comparison. Mr. Mowbray and Mr. McGall 

 have done their share; now let someone else try a hand. 



It took several months of steady work on my part to 

 write up these collections, and to describe and photograph 

 all the bird-hones sent me for the purpose. As I have 

 remarked above, all the bones examined by me were of 

 birds, and they were either Shearwaters or Petrels. The 

 famous " Cahow " proved to be a new Petrel instead of 

 a well-known species of Shearwater ; and the material 



