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portions of integument and feathers near Tiger Hill on Manuherikia 

 plains. It is now in the York Museum. 



Some large deposits have been found near Hamilton, in Moa 

 swamp, and some on the surface of Moa flat in the neighbourhood 

 of the Olutha river. 



A Moa's egg with embryo chick was found in a road cutting at 

 Cromwell. 



Some bones were found in the neighbourhood of Lake Wanaka ; 

 also on the south side of Lake Wakatipn in a cave a quarter of a mile 

 from the lake. 



In a cave one mile from Queen stown, near the Gorge Road, wei-© 

 found some very perfect double-shafted feathers of the Moa, but no 

 bones. 



Some remains were found at the foot of the Obelisk range near 

 Alexandra. 



On the Clutha just above Roxburgh a skeleton was found by 

 tunnelling on the bed rock under 40 feet of shingle. 



Fragments of bones have been found with broken egg-shells in 

 ovens in the Maniatoto plain, Taieri river. 



A neck was found about 40 miles further inland in a cave near 

 Earnsclough valley of the Conroy and neighboui'hood of the Dunstan, 

 and some feathers between Alexandra and Roxburgh. Some bones 

 were found in the same district in a gully 5000 feet above the sea. , 



Between Havelock and the Kaokaoroa valley some bones were 

 found imbedded in limestone. 



Remains of the Moa on the west coast of the South Island are 

 very rare. But some have been found at Marsden in the north of 

 the WestlaTid Province. 



Gothic Hall, Stamford Hill. Charles Smith. , 



li IE ^^ I DS "W S. 

 I. DiSCOVEKIES IN THE MORE ReCENT DEPOSITS OF THE BoVEY- 



Basin, Devon. By W. Pengelly, F.R.S., etc. [Trans. Devon 

 Assoc, vol. XV. 1883.] 



THE deposits that rest on the Eocene (or Miocene) clays and 

 lignites of Bovey Tracey in Devonshire have yielded a number 

 of interesting remains. These include Betula nana, and other species 

 of plants indicative of a colder climate than we have at present; 

 bones of Deer, Ox, and Man ; Cockles and Oysters ; a Bronze 

 Spear-head, and two stone moulds for casting bronze weapons ; a 

 wooden Doll or Idol, probably used as a symbol in phallic worship; 

 and lastly a Canoe. In the paper now before us Mr. Pengelly dis- 

 cusses the evidence he has been enabled to gather respecting the 

 various objects discovered, and their probable ages. Somewhat start- 

 ling, however, is the conclusion, or rather (as Mr. Pengelly puts it) the 

 Confession of Faith (not of KnowJedge), "That the Canoe found 

 deep in the Clay, below the ' High-Level Head,' at the Great Western 

 Potteries, in the parish of Bovey Tracey, in 1881, is of, at least, 

 Glacial Ai>;e." . 



