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BULLETIN OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
Grande Plaine, a few occur elsewhere, — on the edge of the woods 
to the southwest, -as I have myself seen, and towards Northwest 
Point as reported by residents, though I was unable to find the 
latter locality. I have, (however, under the guidance of Mr. Jas. 
Bruno, keeper of the Goose Light, seen a few walrus bones un- 
covered by the shifting of ‘the beach south of that light. 
So much for the Miscou localities. Although I have made 
many inquiries I have been able to learn of but a single other 
place of occurrence of walrus bones in all New Brunswick. The 
(Museum of the Miramichi Natural History Association (see their 
Procedings, IV., 58) contains a walrus jaw presented by a resi- 
dent of Burnt Church. I am informed, however, by Dr. Philip 
Cox that it was found on Portage Island, and also that he had 
searched there exhaustively for others but without avail. As the 
walrus no doubt formerly resorted all along this coast, and was 
probably hunted here as at Miscou, its bones must have form- 
erly occurred here. But they have probably all been washed 
away by the sea, which is everywhere encroaching rapidly upon 
this coast. It is only the remarkable and unique conditions which 
prevail at Grande Plaine, Miscou, (where, owing to local causes, 
the land is being built out instead of removed), which have pre- 
served the bones in that locality. 
So far as I can learn, the bones now in the Society’s collection 
are the only ones from Miscou in any museum. Dr. Chalmers 
collected a number some years ago for the Geological Survey of 
Canada, but I am informed they were not preserved and are not 
now in the Survey Museum. References to the bones- at Grande 
Plaine occur in Perley’s Report on the Sea and River Fisheries of 
New Brunswick, 1850, 33, in Ells’ Report on the Geology of 
Northern New Brunswick, 1879-80, D, 43, and in Chalmer’s Re- 
port on the Surface Geology of Northeastern New Brunswick, 
1888, 27 N. A reference to their expected (but unrealized) 
occurrence in shell-heaps in the Bay of Fundy is in Boardman’s 
Naturalist of the Saint Croix, (Bangor, Me., I9°3)> 242. 
