Miscellaneous. ib 
To sum up, therefore, we would affirm that Leporides exist un- 
doubtedly under both forms, with predominance of the hare or of 
the rabbit; but as a species, or even a variety, we cannot admit 
them, since, like all other crosses, they have merely an accidental 
a Their utility moreover is but slender, the flesh 
aving neither the whiteness of the rabbit nor the fine flavour of the 
hare. Pretty much the same thing may be said of hares reared in 
hutches; their flesh lacks flavour, and their multiplication is too 
limited to render them a profitable object of industrry.—Bulletin 
mensuel de la Société Impériale zool. d Acclimatation, 2” série, 
tome iii. No. 7, July 1866. 
Megaceros hibernicus in the Cambridgeshire Fens. 
By Norman Moors, Esq. 
Early this year some diggings for phosphatic nodules were opened 
near Upware, a village on the Cam, about twelve miles below Cam- 
bridge. I have several times visited the workings in company with 
Mr. J. F. Walker, B.A., F.G.S., Examiner in Natural Science at 
Sidney Sussex College; and whilst he was occupied with the Lower- 
Greensand fossils, I paid more particular attention to the surface 
soil. Some fragments of roebuck horns and teeth, one horn of a 
red deer, and various other bones have been the result. One of the 
roebuck horns is notched on each side, as if to afford a fastening- 
place for string, and the points are rubbed smooth ; hence one might 
suppose that the horn was used, centuries ago, as a net-peg. While 
at Upware, on my last visit to the bed, a few days ago, I heard that 
a man in the neighbouring village of Wicken had an elephant’s bone, 
which he had dug out of the surface soil while working at the 
coprolite-diggings in Burwell Fen. I luckily fell in with the man 
and the bone, which, to my delight, I saw belonged to an Irish elk. 
It was an almost perfect and well-marked ulna, evidently of a full- 
grown animal. The man informed me that several bones of like 
appearance were found with this one. They were sold for a small 
sum to a bone-dealer; this was kept as a curiosity because of its 
curious shape, ‘‘like a pistol.’ It is of a dark peat-colour. As far 
as I can judge by a comparison of the relation which the length of 
the ulna bears to the height of the shoulder from the ground in the 
_ Irish elk in the Woodwardian Museum, I suppose that the animal to 
which this ulna belonged cannot have been less than eighteen hands 
high. 
St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge. 
Note on Assiminea Francesie. By Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S. &e. 
Tn the ‘Annals and Magazine of Natural History’ for June last, 
at p. 381, Mr. Blanford makes some observations on the various 
terminations which have been given to the name of the shell called 
Assiminea Francesie. I may state that I originally described the 
shell as above, naming it after my sister, Frances Ince, who made a 
