RANGE OF THE DORMOUSE IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 207 
in North Staffordshire, where it is no doubt commonly to be found 
in most of our woods. In January last an intelligent woodman 
informed me that he had frequently seen and caught dormice in 
the woods around here, and to prove his words he brought me a 
living specimen a few days afterwards; .... another living 
specimen I saw last year, also caught in this immediate 
neighbourhood. I have also received reliable evidence as to the 
frequent occurrence of the Dormouse in other parts of the 
county.” 
Mr. W. Ashby, in a note published in ‘The Field,’ mentions 
having found dormice on the borders of LricusTERsHIRE and 
WarwIcksHIRE, which is the only evidence I am able to adduce of 
their existence in the former county. 
From Drrpysuire there are no reports whatsoever. 
As to Norrinenamsuire, Mr. J. Whitaker, of Rainworth 
Lodge, near Mansfield, writes me that notwithstanding numerous 
inquiries he can only hear of its existence in one locality (a wood 
near Worksop), where there are two colonies. 
From RutLanDsHIRE no information has been received. 
Mr. Cordeaux informs me that he has never met with the 
Dormouse in any part of Lincotnsurre, nor has he any note of 
its occurrence within the bounds of that county, but thinks it 
quite possible there may be localities where it is to be found, 
which appears to be the case in the south-west, as shown by the 
following extract from a note by Mr. H. Rudkin, of Old Trafford 
(‘ Field,’ May 24th, 1884):—‘I believe it is to be met with in 
most of the woods of South Lincolnshire, or at least those 
between Grantham and Bourn. About the year 1868 I saw one 
in a labourer’s cottage, which the man had found in a torpid state 
among the sale lots in Ripsley Rise Wood..... Some years 
after I saw in the possession of the same man another, which he 
had obtained while working in the woods, but I forget the exact 
locality, although it must have been within a few miles of the spot 
where he found the other.” 
Mr. Shaw, of Shrewsbury, writes me that the Dormouse is 
found in CHESHIRE. 
The only evidence received relating to its occurrence in 
LANCASHIRE is comprised in a note by Mr. J. P. Thomasson in 
‘The Field,’ who says—“ Some fifteen or twenty years ago I 
found some nests of the Dormouse on the banks of the River 
