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not uncommon in the woods near Plymouth ; and the Rev. G. C. 
Green finds it also far from rare about Modbury. Mr. D’Urban 
mentions its occurrence in the neighbourhood of Axminster. 
Mr. Gatcombe also states that it is common in some places near 
Exeter, but that he believes it to be scarcer than it formerly was 
in South Devon. He says—“ Bellamy, in his ‘ Natural History 
of South Devon,’ speaks of it as ‘not uncommon, perhaps 
commoner than in most counties.’” Mr. J. Brooking Rowe, one 
of the revisers of Couch’s ‘Cornish Fauma,’ lately told Mr. 
Gatcombe that he also considered the species to be less frequently 
met with in the south of the county than in former years. 
Miss Henchliff informs me that it occurs about Instow and 
Westward Ho; and Mr. A. L. Allen mentions the neighbourhood 
of Honiton as a locality where he has caught specimens and 
found the animal fairly common. (‘ Field,’ April 19th, 1884). 
Reports from DorsETsHIRE and HAMPSHIRE are very meagre ; 
perhaps, however, this may arise from the commonness of the 
species rather than its rarity. Mr. Thos. Ruddy, of Corwen, has 
received a pair from the neighbourhood of Winchester, and the 
writer of an anonymous letter in ‘ The Field’ (March 29th, 1884) 
mentions having found a disused nest near Blandford, in Dorset- 
shire. As regards the Istz or Wiaut, the following editorial 
note occurs in ‘ The Field’ of May 3rd, 1884 :—‘‘ We have the 
authority of Mr. A. G. More for stating that it (the Dormouse) is 
common in the Isle of Wight.” Captain Hadfield informs me 
that at the present time it is fairly common throughout the 
Undercliff, and at Shanklin; but that owing to building and 
increase of traffic, it is not so abundant as of yore. He also 
particularises Lincombe, a place where there is a hazel copse, 
about two miles from Ventnor, as a favoured locality. 
In Sussex, Kent, and Surrey the Dormouse appears to be a 
common and well-known species, numbers being often caught in 
some districts for sale as pets. The boys at the school attached 
to the Royal Medical Benevolent College at Epsom used to catch 
and keep them ; I have known them to occur also at Holmwood, 
near Dorking, and have frequently seen them advertised for sale 
from Leapale, near Guildford. Mr. W. Ashby, writing in ‘ The 
Field’ from Faversham, Kent, says—‘‘ The woodmen turn them 
out of old stumps when cutting wood in the winter.” 
From GLovcESTERSHIRE there are no reports, but from its 
