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inquiry that the Dormouse has been taken during the last few 
years in the parishes of Gillingham, Geldeston, and Stockton. 
J. Spencer, the gardener at Geldeston Hall, tells me that he 
frequently finds them. His master, the late Mr. T. Kerrick, 
turned off six or seven dormice procured from Surrey about forty 
years since; but itis now socommon that Spencer doubts whether 
the present mice can all have sprung from those six or seven ; 
and if so the species has now spread to Stockton Wood, a mile 
and quarter to the north-west of Geldeston Hall; and to 
Dunburgh, nearly a mile to the south of Geldeston, in both of 
which places it has been taken.” 
With the exception of Mr. Wood's account of the finding of a 
Dormouse in its nest in the Devil’s Ditch, there are no reports 
from CAMBRIDGESHIRE, and the same may be said of Huntinepon- 
SHIRE. 
The evidence received from NorTHAMPTONSHIRE is also scanty 
and unsatisfactory, and consists of an anonymous letter to ‘ The 
Field,’ in which the writer states that he has occasionally seen 
dormice in the spinneys and hedgerows at the south-western 
extremity of the county. 
Coming next to WarwicxsHirE, I am informed by the 
Rev. H. A. Macpherson that Mr. O. V. Aplin has a stuffed 
specimen caught at Edgehill, while two notes from anonymous 
contributors to ‘The Field’ testify to its occurrence in that 
county, in one of which the writer speaks of having seen and 
watched one in April, 1883, near Yardley Wood. 
As regards WorcESTERSHIRE, in ‘ The Field’ of May 3rd, 1884, 
the following editorial note appears :—“ In Hasting’s ‘ Illustra- 
tions of the Natural History of Worcester’ the author states 
(p. 61) that the Dormouse is abundant in most of the woods in 
that county.” Mr. H. Shaw, of Shrewsbury, has also informed 
me of its occurrence there, as well as in HeREFORDSHIRE ; and an 
anonymous letter in ‘The Field’ confirms the statement as 
regards the latter county. 
In Suropsurre Mr. Shaw tells me it is far from rare, and he 
frequently has specimens brought him. He states that it is 
found too in the adjoining county of SrarrorDsHIRE, as also 
appears from the following note by Mr. J. R. B. Masefield 
(Abbots Haye, Cheadle), which lately appeared in ‘ The Field’ :— 
“T recently had occasion to make enquiries as to its occurrence 
