24 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
MAMMALIA. 
Note on a Weasel and Wren.—On the afternoon of the 28rd November 
last I watched a Weasel running about on a garden lawn at Northrepps, 
and examining in succession the roots of the standard roses and other 
shrubs planted at intervals on the grass. This operation evidently excited 
the attention of a Wren, which perched on every bush visited by the 
Weasel, flying to each immediately the Weasel reached it, but not pursuing 
the animal on the open grass. This continued for some minutes till the 
Weasel and Wren both disappeared in an adjacent plantation.—J. H. 
Gurney (Northrepps Hall, Norwich). 
The Greater Horse-shoe Bat not a Yorkshire Species.— With 
reference to the editorial note at p. 483 of ‘The Zoologist’ for December, 
I may say that the bat which Mr. James Carter took at Carperby, in 
Wensleydal=, was not this species, but the Great Bat, or Noctule, a species 
which is by no means uncommon in Yorkshire. Mr. Carter most kindly 
sent me the specimen for inspection soon after he obtained it. The Berk- 
shire record would therefore appear to be about as far north as the species 
ranges in Britain.—Witt1am Denison Roxsuck (Sunny Bank, Leeds). 
BIRDS. 
Hybrid Wagtails.—In the course of several visits to Mr. Swaysland, 
during a recent stay at Brighton, I saw, among his large collection of 
stuffed birds, three very remarkable ones, of which he kindly permitted a 
full examination to be made. ‘There is no doubt that they are hybrids 
between the Grey Wagtail (Motacilla melanope, Pall.) and the Pied Wag- 
tail (DZ. lugubris, Tem.), bred in the aviary of Mr. T. J. Monk, at Lewes. 
The first cross was between a cock Grey Wagtail and a hen Pied Wagtail ; 
the second cross between the male hybrid so bred and a hen Pied Wagtail, 
Only one of the first cross seems to have been preserved. Though cer- 
tainly more like a Pied than a Grey Wagtail, its plumage furnishes 
irrefutable evidence of the hybridism. Itis a rather larger bird than a Pied 
Wagtail, and its tail is longer. The throat and chin are white, while on 
the upper part of the breast there is a narrow semicircular gorget of black 
spots, below which comes a wash of bright yellow, and a tinge of the same 
colour extends to the belly. The progeny of the second cross are just like 
young Pied Wagtails in autumn, but with a little more yellow tint suffused 
about the plumage. If it is possible to carry inter-breeding to such an 
extent in the Wagtails, a genus of birds not previously known to have 
