12 EARLY ANNALS OF ORNITHOLOGY 
that the Cuckoo went away about the time the Dog-Star 
(Sirius) rose, that is in July, which is correct enough.* 
Bones of Birds from Superficial Deposits ——Of no great 
antiquity are the bones of birds which have been dug up in 
peat bogs and other superficial deposits in different parts 
of the British Isles, a list of which is given in the “ Ibis” 
for 1891 (pp. 383-394). Some of them are perhaps open to 
question as regards their determination. 
More than sixty years ago a Pelican’s humerus was 
exhumed in the Isle of Ely, although its identity was not 
immediately recognised.t This and another of larger size 
which I obtained through Mr. Baker, at Feltwell in Norfolk 
in 1869,t were thought by Professor Newton to be assignable 
to Pelecanus crispus, an opinion confirmed by the subsequent 
discovery of a third specimen.§ The first Pelican’s humerus 
was submitted by Professor Newton to Professor Milne- 
Edwards, who agreed with him that it was that ef a young 
bird, in which ossification was incomplete, a strong indication 
that it was bred in Cambridgeshire. A fourth Pelican’s 
bone was subsequently reported to Professor Newton from 
Glastonbury, where later excavations have yielded quite a 
large number of Pelican remains. These have been fully 
described in the “ Ibis’ (1899, p. 351) by Mr. C. W. Andrews, 
and in “The Glastonbury Lake Village”? (Vol. II., p. 631). 
Mr. Andrews finds that ‘“ Many of the bones are greatly broken 
and the ends much abraded, and in several instances they 
must have belonged to young birds. This latter circumstance 
appears to indicate that these birds bred in the neighbourhood, 
and that they were probably used for food by the inhabitants 
of the Village.” Pelican bones have also been recorded by 
Dr. Herluf Winge from Danish kitchen-middens of the Stone 
Age. The peat bogs of the Isle of Ely have further 
yielded bones of the Beaver, Wild Swan, Wild Duck, Great 
Crested Grebe, Bittern, and Coot.|| That the Swan, like the 
* Dr. Eagle Clarke attaches much importance to the writings of 
Aristotle about Migration (‘‘ Studies in Bird Migration,” Vol. I., pp. 3-5), 
t ‘<Proc. Zool. Soc.,’’ 1868, p. 2; ‘Ibis,’ 1868, p. 363. 
t ‘‘ Proc. Zool. Soc.,’’ 1871, p. 703; Norwich Nat. Tr., VI., p. 363. 
§ ‘Norwich Nat. Tr.,”’ VII., p. 159. 
| ‘Ibis,’ 1863, p. 364. 
