2756 The Zoologist — September, 1871. 



Harvest Mouse. — Somewhat local, but not uncommon. Mr. 

 Norgate finds it frequent at Sparhara, and has taken four or five 

 nests in one day. At Gillingbam Mr. Crowfoot has taken its 

 nests in the tall sedges by the side of the river Waveney ; also in 

 the marram-grass on the beach at Kissingland, almost within reach 

 of the sea-spray. Two females brought forth young ones in captivity 

 in the Lynn Museum. 



Longtailed Field Mouse and Common Mouse. — Both common. 



Black Rat. — Messrs. Paget, in 1834, state "It still remains 

 here, tliough its numbers are gradually decreasing." Mr. Lubbock, 

 in 1845, says it is " still occasionally found in the city of Norwich." 

 Twenty years ago 1 saw one which was killed in the coal-house at 

 the Lynn Subscription Library. It is now extremely rare, if not 

 quite extinct, in this county. 



Brown Hat. — Common, Cream-coloured and pied varieties 

 sometimes occur. 



Water Vole. — Common in marshes and low ground. Mr. T. E. 

 Gunn records the occurrence of the black variety of the water vole 

 at Earlham in the summer of 1865 (Zool. S. S. 152). 



Field Vvle (Arvicola agrestis, Flem.) — Common. Mr. F. Norgate 

 found the nest of this species containing six young, which were 

 blind and naked, at Sparham, on the 27lh of March : it consisted 

 of a ball of grass placed in a slight depression of the ground. 



Mr. Gurney saw a vole which was taken from a kestrel's nest at 

 Earlham, and which, upon a cursory examination, appeared to him 

 to be Mr. Yarrell's bank vole [Arvicola pratensis). As this species 

 has not been observed in Norfolk, he thinks the subject worthy of 

 attention. The bank vole recorded in the ' Zoologist' for 1865 

 (S. S. 152) is an albino variety of A. amphibius with malformed 

 incisors. 



Hare. — Common. In Mr. Stevenson's notes several instances of 

 the occurrence of a very beautiful variety of the common hare, with 

 " fur like chinchilla," at Burnham Thorpe are recorded. As these 

 notes occur in 1859, 1864, and again in 1866, it would seem to 

 indicate something like a permanent variety in that locality. 

 Mr. F. Norgate also mentions a similar variety, " light gray, very 

 like the alpine hare in the transition state from summer to winter 

 coat," as having been met with at Great Witchingham and West 

 Lexham. He has also seen a hare with a black back at Sparham, 

 and Mr. Gurney mentions a still more remarkable variety, perfectly 



