208 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Hodder, dividing Lancashire from Yorkshire, and saw the 
owner.” One of these nests is stated to have been built in a 
scragsy furze-bush. 
The range of the Dormouse in YorxsHrr£, taken in hand by 
Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, has been more carefully and completely 
worked out than is probably the case with any other county. The 
result of his researches, as published in ‘The Field,’ is as 
follows:—“ .... Taking the records geographically, we will 
begin with Cleveland, a district which it has been known to 
inhabit since 1808, in which year it was enumerated in the 
catalogue of Cleveland animals, which was, printed as an appendix 
to Graves’ ‘History of Cleveland.’ Coming now to the 
manuscript information, I find that Mr. George Page considered 
it rather scarce near Guisborough, Mr. T. H. Nelson that -it was 
not numerous near Redcar, and Mr. Robert Lofthouse, of 
Middlesborough, stated that in the spring of 1881 he met with it 
near Pinchinthorpe. Mr. James Carter, when staying at 
Saltburn-by-the-Sea some years ago, saw a specimen which had 
been taken near Lofthouse-in-Cleveland. Mr. George Abbey only 
saw a single specimen during the time that he resided at Grinkle 
Park, near Lofthouse, of which place he was a native; it ran out 
of its nest, which was situated in a thorn-bush about a yard from 
the ground. There are specimens in the Whitby Museum which 
have been taken in the district, but Mr. Thomas Stephenson does 
not consider it a common species there. A few are found at 
Glaisdale in Upper Eskdale, according to Mr. William Lister, of 
that place—a statement which is corroborated by Mr. John 
Braim, of Pickering. Mr. R. Clarke, of the last-named place, has 
been shown several specimens taken in woods above Pickering, 
though he had found none himself. Passing now to the 
beautifully wooded upper vale of the Yorkshire Derwent, I find 
that Mr. William Scoby reported it as frequently met with about 
Helmsley, Kirby Moorside, and Pickering, while Mr. James 
Brigham, of Slingsby, stated that, although it is sometimes found 
with its nest in the woods about that place, the captures are 
rather unusual, and he did not think there were many in the 
district. Mr. Walter Stamper regarded it as not common about 
Nunnington, and Mr. Peter Inchbald has found it at Hovingham. 
On April 21st, 1871, the latter gentleman recorded one found 
asleep in its ‘drey’; this was formed of dry grasses, chiefly 
