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the upper lir.inches of a pollard oak, by a keeper, near Langholme Bridge, which crosses 

 the Aide, a few miles from this place. Several otters have been seen in the reed-beds 

 by the banks of the same river; and on several occasions since October I have found 

 remains of pike upon the {iround near various small streams in this neighbourhood. — 

 Alexander Clark- Kennedy ; Wickham Market, Suffolk, December 18, 1868. 



While Fox in North Wales. — A purely white specimen of the common fox is reported 

 to have been seen upon several occasions, during the month of December, in the woods 

 a few miles from this house, but the hounds have not dropped upon it yet. Several 

 persons have seen this remarkable animal, and there is no reason to doubt their state- 

 ments. As 1 am writing of variations of colour in auira.ils, I may as well mention 

 that the gamekeeper told me a few days back that he saw an albino squirrel shot in a 

 covert near Erddig last winter. — /(/. ; Erddig Park, Wrexham, Denbigh, January 3, 

 1869. 



Pied Hare in Saffolk. — Early in November last the Duke of Hamilton, while out 

 shooting near Easton Park, killed a bare which was prettily marked with white and 

 iron-gray. The head, ears and part of the neck were white, mingled with gray, and 

 the legs, feet and part of the chest were of a milk-white hue, as was a portion of the 

 back, allogelher giving the animal a curious appearance. — Id. 



Barbaslelle Dal at Salisbury, — I am not aware that the barbastelle (Barbasiellus 

 Daubentonii, of Bell) has been previously captured in our county; but, even if it has, 

 the occurrence of so rare a British bat, especially at this time of the year, may not be 

 without interest to some of the readers of the ' Zoologist.' The specimen alluded to is 

 that of a very fine adult male, which, ou the 1st instant, was noticed flying about the 

 fields in the immediate vicinity of our cily in broad daylight. A person who was pass- 

 ing knocked it down with bis walking-stick, and took it to Mr. Best, a birdstitfifer, 

 living in Milford-street. Mr. Best told me the bat was very active (its right wing was 

 broken by the blow from the stick, but it had apparently received no other injury), and, 

 crippled as it was, managed to climb up and down its captor's arm. The almost total 

 absence of frost, and general mild climate of the present sea.son doubtless interfered 

 with the hybernation of this little barbastelle; hunger induced it to venture out and 

 endeavour to procure a few gnats when it met with its untimely death. The capture 

 at this lime of the year is the more remarkable as the barbastelle is a bat known to in- 

 habit the south of France. — //. P. Blackmore ; Salisbury, IVills, January 1869. 



Whitetailed Eagle in Suffolk.— htird Henniker sent me on the 26th inst. a speci- 

 men of the above bird, which was caught in a trap baited with rabbit for gray crows, 

 on the 20th inst., on the north side of the Home Wood, Thornham. It was a fine 

 bird, in immature plumage, and consequently without the white tail. It measured 

 across the wings, from tip to tip, 7f feel, and, althoughjthe plumage was a good deal 

 injured by rolling in the mud, .Mr. Ambrose, of this town— to whose skilful bands it 

 has been consigned — hopes to turn out a tolerably fair skin. Another eagle, probably 

 of the same species, was frequently seen about ten days ago at Alresford, near ihis 

 place; but, being shot at and missed, it flew away. I wrote to Col. Hawkins for 

 information as to dates, and he writes me word that it was last seen about the 16lh or 

 17lb, which would make it probable that the captured bird was the same. An eagle 



