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tradition that it belonged to a bird of the eagle kind which had 
me extinct; and to which they gave the name of ‘ Movie.’” 
(Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, Nov. 12, 1839, 
p. 169:) I am now, of course, disposed to attach more weight to 
this tradition than when it rested on a fossil proved to belong to a 
bird which could not’ fly, and which was at least as large as anos- 
trich. We may suppose the great.raptorial species which we now 
know to have co-existed’ with the Dinornithes.to have survived, by 
reason of its greater powers of escape, some time after the extinc- 
tion of its principal prey; and the tradition: of the great bird “ of 
the eagle kind” may be a consequence of the knowledge of the 
Harpagornis.continuing down to later generations of Maories than 
those who hunted down the huge herbivorous flightless birds. — 
Ricard Owen, in the Academy. 
ANTHROPOLOGY. 
Axotner LAKE VILLAGE. — “An interesting archeological dis- 
covery has recently been made onthe shores of the Lake of Bienne. 
The Swiss Government has been for along time endeavoring to 
drain a considerable tract of land between the two lakes of Morat 
and Bienne, but in order to do this effectually it has been found 
necessary to lower the level of the latter by cutting a canal from it 
to the lake of Neuchatel. At the beginning of the present year 
the sluices were opened, and the waters of the Lake of Bienne 
allowed to flow irito- that of Neuchatel. Up to the present time 
the level of the: Bieler See has fallen upwards of three feet, 
ani this fall has -brought -to light «a number of stakes driven 
firmly into the bed of the lake. This: fact becoming known, a 
number of Swiss archeologists visited the spot,and it was decided 
to remove the soil round these stakes to see’ whether any remains 
of a Lacustrine village, which they suspected had been raised upon 
them, could be traced. At a distance of between five and six feet 
m the: present bed of the lake the workmen came upon a large 
number of objects. of various kinds, which have been collected and 
are at present under: the custody of Dr. Gross of Locrass. Among 
are pieces of cord made from hemp, vases; stags’ horns, stone 
hatchets, and utensils used apparently for cooking. The most 
fous specimen is, however, á hatchet made of néphrite (the 
vame given to a peculiarly hard kind of stone from which the La- 
