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bottom at the end of the cave. The estimated length of the cave is forty 
feet. 
The floor consisted of a fine powdered rock, which was encrusted to a 
depth of two inches with rectangular crystals of a clear salt* resembling 
saltpetre. Some of this, or a similar substance, was found in pieces two 
inches long by one deep. The depth of the sand was nine inches. 
Below this was a coarser formation of small flakes of schist, which 
extended to a depth of two feet six inches. The next stratum was composed 
of still coarser material, with broken blocks of schist through it. The 
depth of this was not tried. 
The only trace of water was a slight drip on the left side near the 
entrance. In places the roof was encrusted with a thin covering of a white 
substance} which, probably, damp had caused to exude from the rock.+ ” 
No traces of animal life were found lower than about six inches from 
the surface, except at the entrance end, where the material appeared to 
consist of animal and vegetable matter, which had drifted down from the . 
other parts of the floor, which had a steep incline from the entrance 
inwards. 
Thirty feet from the entrance, in the two-inch crust, a small quantity of 
double-shafted feathers, of a greyish-brown colour, and three inches long, 
were obtained. They were scattered separately through the sand. The 
height of the cave at this place was about three and a-half feet, and the 
width six feet. 
Further in was a small collection of short sticks, fern, and broom, 
which might be the remains of a nest. Here the feathers were scarcer, 
and a metatarsus was found in good preservation which measured 8 inches in 
length, 63 girth at proximal end, 33 at thinnest part, and 8% girth at distal 
end ;{ also portions of egg-shell of a green colour, which appeared to be 
parts of a large egg, probably that of a large duck. 
In both of these places feathers of different birds were found, the 
greater number belonging to the Paroquet (Platycercus). These appeared 
to be generally nearer to the surface than those first mentioned. 
Close to the end of the cave were found a fibula, measuring 11} in 
length, and 4% girth at the proximal end, and several vertebre, and a 
portion of an upper mandible. All of these belonged most likely to the 
same bird. 
* Sulphate of soda, or Glauber’s salt.—J. G. B. 
ypsum.—J, G. B. 
} D, casuarinus.—F. W. H. 
