234 Seieniife Titelligence: 
a referable probably to a species of Sqgualius, obtained at 
augerie Basse. A chapter on the birds whose bones occur in 
the caves, by Alphonse Mfilne-Raw ards, describes relics of three 
ale, Falco Julvus, Aquila clanga, and Halictus albicilla ; the 
ommon Buzzard, Buteo vulgaris; four Falcons, Falco com- 
munis, FE. subbuteo, F. tinnuneulus, F. milvus ; two Vultures, 
Vultur barbatus and V. monachus ; the Owls, Strix bubo, 
8. brachyotus, 8. flammea, Noctua minor, Glaucideum pas- 
serinum, oN yetea nivea; also, Corvus corax, C. coronatus 
corniz (a — species), C. ‘monedule (the Jackdaw), Pyrrho- 
corax alpinus, P. primigenius, oe 3 graculus, Nucifraga 
caryocatactes echo Scandinavian variety), Pica caudate (Magpie), 
, Alauda arvensis (Sky-lark), Turdus viscivorus, 
Ampelis garrulus (Waxw ing, rarely now seen in France), Motacilla 
phenicura, Hirundo rupestris (Crag-Martins, now common in_ the 
Alps and Pyrenees), Alcedo ispida (Kingfisher), Columba livia 
same with sb pi geo n), Lagopus — (Willow-Grouse, 
ound at the north and not in temperate Europe), Lagopus mutus 
oe Besar of the Alps and Heaton @ Tetrao urogallus, 
 tetrix, T. perdix (Gray Partridge), Gallus, the Cock, (found 
along with bones — resus speleus, Rhinoceros, &¢.), GEdienemus 
i now aquaticus, Gallinul ula hloropus, Grus primi- 
with mange) their remains are oe Part: o them were 
taken into the caves ia food, while others ipceened: to have been 
washed in = ner 
oe be ish di Basse, by E. T. Harvy, with two plates illustrating 
the s 
6. aueins of Stone Mountain, a granitic muss in Georgia. 
—The well-known “ Stone Mountain” in DeKalb County, Georgia, 
twenty miles southeast of Atlanta, on the railroad to Augusta, is 
a solid = mass of ' granite, by estimate eee to 2000 feet in 
height. nbroken. and smoot 
the eee side is inclined so as to be ofe easy ascent; while the 
west and southwest are so steep as to be barely accessible. On 
the inclined surface, the rock breaks off in layers that are from 
a few td ay several feet thick, which structure may be due 
no "doaht that below the surface Inmination, a site could be 
omg out a quarter of a mile in length if man could command 
granite exists a a wide region of country and 
