210 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
‘Field.’ About Austwick, a village at the base of Ingleborough 
Hill, Mr. T. R. Clapman considered it a very occasional species ; 
but Mr. F. S. Mitchell, of Clitheroe, says that it is occasionally 
found in all parts of that corner of Yorkshire which lies between 
Clitheroe, Slaidburn, and Bolton-by-Bowland, and in certain 
localities therein it may even be called common. This mass of 
detailed and concurrent evidence goes far to show that the species 
ranges over the wooded portions of our large county, of which it 
is most undoubtedly a native; and there can be no reason to 
doubt the correctness of the identification made by the gentlemen 
whose names I cite as authorities for the records, as several of 
them are naturalists of not inconsiderable attainments, and all of 
them are careful and painstaking field observers.” 
Mr. W. Storey, Pateley Bridge, Leeds, in a note published in 
‘The Field’ of May 8rd, 1884, says:—‘ Mr. Joseph Kirkley, of 
Brinham Rocks, Pateley Bridge, informs me that during the 
summer of 1877 he found a nest containing several young 
Dormice in Brinham Woods. Last spring I observed one in its 
wild state in Guyscliffe Woods, Pateley Bridge. Mr. George 
Charlton, of this place, has in his possession at the present time 
a live Dormouse, which was taken hybernating in Wath Woods, 
Pateley Bridge, about a fortnight ago. Woodmen in this neigh- 
bourhood meet with a few annually.” 
As regards Duruam, Mr. Roebuck, in the article lately quoted, 
says—“‘It has long been on record for the county of Durham. 
So far back as 18638, Messrs. Mennell and Perkins published a 
list of the Mammalia of Northumberland and Durham, in which 
they cited the Dormouse as of rare occurrence, taken occasionally 
in the woods which clothe the valley of the Derwent at Gibside, 
Winlaton Mill, and near Ebchester.” Besides the above, Mr. N. 
M‘Lachlan, of Lambrook, Bracknell, Berks, in a recent issue of 
‘The Field,’ writes as follows:—* ....... Some fourteen or 
fifteen years ago I observed the Dormouse in the county of 
Durham, at Headlam, a small village about half-way between 
Darlington and Barnard Castle. For several days a pair of these 
little creatures had frequented a large peach-tree growing on 
a warm south wall in the Hall gardens, and eventually one 
of them was drowned in a bottle of beer and sugar which had 
been hung on the tree to catch the wasps, as the fruit was just 
ripening. 
