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me from doing more at present than mention that flint hatchets closely resembling those from Amiens and Abbeville, were found at Hoxne in Suffolk, and described by Mr. Frere, in 1797. Some of the oval form were found in Kent-Hole, near Torquay. In the British Museum is a similar specimen which was found with the skeleton of an elephant in London many years ago, and more recently a few have been discovered near Reculvers by Mr. Leech, Mr. Evans, and Mr. Prestwich, at Biddenham in Bedfordshire by Mr. Wyatt, at Godalming in Surrey by Mr. Whitburn, and at Abbot's Langley by Mr. Evans. We may reasonably hope that the persevering researches of these gentlemen, and especially of Messrs. Evans and Prestwich, will be rewarded by similar discoveries in other places.

Description of Plate VII.

Fig. 1. A fiint axe from a tumulus, 1/3 Nat. size.

Fig. 2. Another form of stone axe with a hole for a handle, 1/3 Nat. size.

Fig. 3. A flint saw, 1/2 Nat. size.

Fig. 4. A flint sword, 1/6 Nat. size.

Fig. 5. A flint chisel, 1/2 Nat. size.

Fig. 6. One of the "cores" from which the flint flakes are splintered, 1/2 Nat. size.

Fig. 7. One of the flakes, 1/2 Nat. size.

Figs 8-9. Rude axes from the Kjokkenmodding at Havelse, 1/2 Nat. size.

Fig. 10. Flint axe from drift at Moulin Quignon near Abbeville, 1/2 Nat. size.

Fig. 11. Flint axe from Abbeville, showing that the part stained white is parallel to the present surfaces, and that the weathering has taken place since the flint was worked into its present shape, 1/2 Nat. size.

Fig. 12. Sling-stone from the Kjokkenmodding at Havelse, 1/2 Nat. size.

 

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LI. Report on the Present State of our Knowledge of the Species of Apteryx living in New Zealand. By Philip Lutley Sclater, M.A., Ph. D., F.R.S., and Dr. F. von Hochstetter.

[Head at the Meeting of the British Association, September, 1861.]

There appears to be evidence of the present existence of at least four species of birds of the genus Apteryx in New Zealand, concerning which we beg to offer the following remarks, taking them one after the other in the order that they have become successively known.

1. Apteryx australis.

Apteryx ausiralis, Shaw, Nat. Misc. xxiv. pl. 1057, 1058, and Gen. Zool. xiii. p. 71.
„„Bartlett, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 275.
„„Yarrell, Trans. Zool. Soc. I. p. 71, pl. 10.

The Apteryx australis was originally made known to science about the year 1813, from an example obtained in New Zealand by Captain Barclay of the ship "Providence." This bird, which was deposited in the collection of the late Lord Derby, was afterwards described at greater length in 1833, in the Transactions of the Zoological Society by Mr. Yarrell, and was still, at that date, the only specimen of this singular form known to exist. Examples of Apteryges subsequently obtained, though generally referred to the present species, have