THE ZooLoGist—JvLy, 1875. 4523 
the Maoris, and are called “kauwahi” by them. About four feet 
from this oven we found some large pieces of egg-shells, of which 
many had still the lining membrane attached, proving, by their 
form of curvature, that they were portions of a Dinornis egg of very 
large size. Towards the western side of the cave, partly buried in 
the sands, partly in the ash bed below the agglomerate, a well- 
preserved skull of a fur seal, probably Arctocephalus lobatus, was 
obtained. 
Having been so far successful, I had the sea sands examined over 
a considerable space, and to a depth of seven feet, when water was 
reached. Since then I have been boring near the same spot, and 
found that the sea sands continued for another five feet before the 
rock on the bottom of the cave was reached, thus showing that there 
is here a total thickness of twelve feet of marine sands in the cave. 
The following shells were obtained in these sands, without doubt 
brought with them into the cave by the waves of the sea, viz.:— 
Mactra discors, M. donaciformis, Mesodesma cuneata, Artemis sub- 
rosea, Turitella rosea, and fragments of some others, but no estuary 
shells. On the surface we found— 
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1. European deposits, dung of cows, goats, &c., wheaten straw, 
ashes - - - - 2 é = : : . 
. Shell bed (Maori) - t = : a f XK 
. Tussock and ash beds - = F = 3 4 4 ‘ 
. Shell beds - - 5 E 3 ¥ ss ss 4 é 
Ash beds - - - - - > = : F F 
. Ditto, mixed greatly with shells, often very much decomposed 
. Ash and dirt beds (lower series) - = z ‘ 2 2 
. Agglomeratic bed - . 4 - - : i 
. Ash bed - - 5 e : é E Z 2 E 
. Marine sands to water - = : = E : 
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Amongst the shell-beds blocks of rock, often of large size, were 
met with, evidently fallen down from the roof, showing that since 
the formation of the agglomerate bed the cave continued to be still 
insecure. There was thus conclusive evidence of the moa hunters 
having used the cave occasionally as a cooking place; whilst the 
absence of any shells proved, as I shall also show, when speaking 
of the numerous moa ovens amongst the small hillocks of drift sand 
near the entrance of the cave, that the population who exterminated 
