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considerable ravages in the wheat-stacks (A. Hussey, Zoologist, 1843, 
349); in Kent it is stated to be still fairly common about Hever 
(Meade Waldo; also Collingwood in Millais). In Surrey, G. Dalgliesh 
(Zoologisi, 1906, 188) records a pair taken in a corn-rick at Eashing, 
near Goldalming, and it was obtained in some number between 
Woking and Guildford by F. H. Salvin (Cocks). It occurs in all parts 
of Essex, according to Laver, and although he never met with more 
than a dozen in one rick, others told him of finding greater numbers; 
Laver (zm Zz.) says that the distribution in this county is extraordinary, 
since these mice are much more rare to the east of Colchester than 
to the west; it was frequent until about 1900. Several nests were 
taken in 1883, near Woodbridge, in Suffolk (E. C. Moor, Zoologist, 
1884, 190), and Rope described it as not uncommon about Leiston 
(Zoologist, 1873, 3610). In Norfolk it was “somewhat local, but not 
uncommon ” (Southwell, Journ. ctz., 1871, 2756) ; Southwell described it 
as still common in 1901; and Oxley Grabham (in /7.) “used to get 
considerable numbers from Haddiscoe.” In Hertfordshire it is recorded 
by Bond (in Harting; see also Vic. Co. Hist), although not found by 
Lydekker in the vicinity of Harpenden. In Cambridgeshire it was often 
seen by T. Bell’s father, probably about 1784, and described to Bell as 
a third species of Field Mouse (Bell, zfse) ; from this county it is recorded 
by Jenyns (Man. Brit. Vert., 31); and also by Bartlett, who described 
it as occurring here, and commonly in Kent (Zoologist, 1843, 289); 
mo recent records were known to Bonhote. From Nottinghamshire 
some mice and a nest were seen many years ago by W. Rigby of the 
Natural History Museum (J. W. Carr, Vic. Co. Hist.). In Northamp- 
tonshire it occurs, though not abundantly (Lord Lilford, zz 4%); in 
Leicestershire and Rutland M. Browne describes it as rare. According 
to Tomes, it occurs in the southern and western, but not in the 
northern districts of Warwickshire; it was obtained in Oxfordshire by 
Rolleston (A. H. Cocks). In Bedfordshire it was not uncommon, about 
1830, at Benham, although not met with in recent times by Steele Elliot. 
Cocks has no knowledge of it in Bucks. In Worcestershire it was 
formerly more abundant in the valley of the Avon, according to Tomes, 
who often saw the nests. In Shropshire four or five nests were taken in 
August or September 1872,at Church Stretton, twelve miles from Shrews- 
bury (G. W. Murdoch, Zoo/ogisz, 1895, 447); Forrest states it to be very 
local in this county; he mentions a pair and nest in T. C. Eyton’s 
collection from Weald Moors (70/71). Miss Pitt (z# /t.) states that it 
? Jenyns, Oés. Nat. Hist. 73, says Harvest Mice “are common in Cambridgeshire.” 
* “ About thirty years ago the late A. B. Herbert, Edinburgh, obtained a number 
from Warwickshire, and kept them for a year or two in a large cage made for their 
reception, where I have often enjoyed watching them exercising on the wheels and 
other contrivances for their amusement” (W. Evans, J/S.). 
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