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298 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
mammals, distinguishes a period even earlier than the Stone Age of the 
Danish savans, and points to a much greater antiquity in the appearance 
of man upon the geological stage than has been hitherto supposed. 
The most ancient skulls (those found in the caverns) of which we have 
any knowledge, are of a very low type in the sharpness of their facial 
angle and in the prominence of the superciliary ridge, showing an ap- 
the birds observed by him there, with much interesting information con 
cerning them. Very full accounts are given of the habits of water-birds, 
particularly of Utamania torda (Razor-billed Auk), and Mormon areticus 
y repeated discharges of the fowling piece ata short distance. Whether 
this was sympathy or not we could not determine,—in appearance it was 
was formerly known only in the Mississippi and Missour? os 
Saricola cwnanthe is carefully compared with the European bird, a0 
found to be identical w species (Aegiothus fuscescens Coues,) Was 
ton, South Carolina, ete. "4to. Russell é& Jones, Charleston, S. C.5 186 
—This im work, the commencement of which has already been P° 
ticed in this Journal, 5 kaw 228) was completed more than a year 
The part relating to the Vertebrate Fossil 
ql the commendation which it deserves. We now propose to disc 
eyeloped i ina than in any other state in the Uo 
and we may congratulate geologists upon the = ear of a work illustr 
the Invertebrata only. he formation named in the title is more este?” 
yped in South Carolin 
