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measures 4. ft. 4-iii. in height, and 11-in. in width at the top. 

 The enclosure, in which the Circle now stands, formed a part of 

 the well-known Nine Maiden Downs till about the year 1865, 

 when the hedge which now partially hides from view the stone 

 which has escaped the notice of Mr. Lukis, was erected. Hals 

 speaks of nine stones as "still to be seen" in his time; Dr. 

 Borlase mentions eight stones as "still standing," eirca 1760; 

 and the Eev. C. Lukis tells us that in 1879 there were "five 

 standing stones and a displaced stone," i.e. six altogether. It 

 will be interesting, however, to know that only one stone has 

 actually disappeared; the remaining eight being " still extant." 



J. WILLS. 



Mr. Haverfield, of Oxford University, who during a visit 

 to the Museum last summer was much struck with the inscription 

 on the Pozo Stone being in full marked figures, writes me saying 

 that he " saw lately in the Eotunda in Vienna, some rock mark- 

 ings brought by Dr. Holub -from Central Africa, which were 

 similarly inscribed. The whole surface of each animal or figure 

 being picked out with small chippings ; the places are so far 

 apart that there is probably no connexion, but the coincidence 

 of method is very curious." 



Last March, Mr. F. H. Davey, of Ponsanooth, sent to the 

 Museum a beautiful specimen of a Male Brambling, Fringilla 

 montifringilla, L. We have in Cornwall good reason to remem- 

 ber that month and its blizzard, and this little record bears on 

 the latter. This bird and others in hundreds, came round Mankey 

 Farm, Ponsanooth, with the commencement of the storm, they 

 swarmed in the farm buildings, tearing the straw abroad in 

 search after grain, and were so tame as to be knocked over with 

 sticks. As the snow disappeared, most of them went away, but 

 scores were content to stay a week or two longer. 



Recently, when remounting in the Museum a mummy 

 Vcns.—lhu religiosa, Cuv. — given in 1870 by Mr. Q-. F. Eemfry, 

 the head of a young Crocodile dropped from inside the bird. The 



