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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
In addition to the “ Egmere find ” I have laid on the table 
this evening, prior to their deposition in the Museum, twenty-four 
Palaeolithic Celts from the undisturbed river gravels of Warren 
Hill, Mildenhall, where these gravel-beds are largely worked for 
road ballast — these Warren Hill gravel pits have not been 
worked during the period that I have had opportunities of 
visiting that part of the county — three Palaeolithic Celts (rather 
indifferent specimens) from Wilton, near Brandon ; also a few 
portions of implements that I have picked up around Grimes 
Graves in the parish of Weeting, Horfolk. 
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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
Tenacity of Life in young House Martins. In my 
Ornithological Notes for 1880, I referred to an account by 
Mr. Southwell in the ‘Zoologist’ for that year (p. 401), of some 
young House Martins having been thrown doAvn by bricklayers, 
Avith their nest, from the eaves of a house near Unthank’s Load, 
and that these Avere subsequently SAvept up Avith the rubbish, and 
throAvn into a bin on the premises of Mr. P. Kitton. This 
occurred on the 1st of July, Avhen the nest contained three young 
ones and one egg. These fledgelings remained in the bin till the 
morning of the 4th, Avhen Mr. Kitton’s children, hearing the 
birds chirping, took them out, and fed them on soaked bread, 
Avhich they eat readily ; but they died on the folloAving morning. 
IMr, Kitton estimated that these young birds, from the time of 
their violent expulsion from the nest, had been deprived of the 
Avarmth of the nest, and of the parent birds as Avell, and of food, 
for sixty-tAvo hours, and that up to the time of their death a 
period of eighty-six hours intervened. That such purely insect- 
eating birds, so incessantly fed by their parents, should have 
survived so long, and under such circumstances, seemed almost 
incredible except on the best authority. I am noAV, hoAvever, able 
