294 NOTES — ORIGINAL AND SELECTED. 



Melampsora epitea Sclnini. (syn. Lecythea epitea Lev.), 



M. mixta Schlecht (syn. L. mixta Lev.) 



M. vitellinse B.C. (syn. L. saliceti Lev.) 



M. populina Lev. 



M. hypericorum D.C. (syn. Urcdo hypericorum D.C.) 



Ustilago utriculosa Nees. 



Tilletia tritici Bjerh. (7~. caries Tul.) 



NOTES— ORIGINAL AND SELECTED. 



ZOOLOGY. 



MAMMALIA. 



Occurrence of De Winton's Mouse in Essex. — On April 

 23rd Dr. Laver wrote : — " Enclosed is the skin of a specimen of 

 De Winton's mouse. It was given to me on April 2nd, having 

 been caught a day or two before by Mr. Henry Tawell in his 

 store-room at Wakes Colne, Essex. He informs me that he has 

 taken lately four other specimens of the same mouse. He sent 

 it to me marked ' specimen of mouse, new kind ' — a very 

 creditable bit of observation, he never having read anything 

 about these mice. It is the first specimen that I have seen since 

 De Winton wrote his paper. I only just got it in time ; a few 

 days or even a few hours more and it would have been impossible- 

 to save the specimen. You will see that I have preserved it in 

 the position desired by the British Museum authorities." 



A short time after Dr. Laver's letter, I received anonymously 

 a specimen in the flesh, which I subsequently found had been 

 sent from Wakes Colne at the suggestion of Mr. T. E. Tawell, a 

 member of the Club. It is now in Mr. Burton's hands for 

 preservation. 



This mouse [Mus sylvaticus wintoni, Barr-Ham.) was first 

 brought forward as a British animal by Mr. W. E. De Winton in 

 the Zoologist for December, 1894,^ under the name of Mus flavi- 

 collis, believing it to be the mouse thus named by Prof. Melchior^ 

 of Copenhagen, in his work on Danish and Norwegian Mammals, 

 This was afterwards found to be a mistaken identification, and 

 Mr. Barrett-Hamilton in his paper " On Geographical and 



I Zoologist (N.S.)) Vol. xviii., pp. 442-45. 



