212 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
As to Mertonerusurre, Mr. Thos. Ruddy, of Palé Gardens, 
Corwen, in a note published in ‘ The Field,’ says—“ It was found 
on the estate of Mr. Robertson, M.P., at Tyfos, near Corwen, in 
a dormant state, in early spring, by men employed in planting 
forest-trees. Several were brought to me by one of the men, to 
know what they were. He said they were found rolled up in leafy 
balls, the leaves being gummed together, as it were.” He adds, 
“ None of my near neighbours ever saw the Dormouse in Merioneth 
before, and I have not heard of its occurrence in any other part of 
the county.” 
The following note by Mr. J. B. Catterall, of Denbigh (‘ Field,’ 
April 19th, 1884), refers to DENBIGHSHIRE :—“ The Dormouse 
breeds freely at Parc-Mostyn, a few miles south-west of Denbigh, 
in a hilly and wild country.” In the same paper, under date 
May 24th, 1884, another correspondent states that he picked up 
a dead Dormouse at Mostyn, Frinrsuire, on May 19th, just 
outside Lord Mostyn’s park. ‘Two anonymous contributions 
to ‘The Field’ also bear witness to the existence of dormice in 
a wild state in the two last-mentioned counties; and in one of 
these the writer mentions the Leeswood Woods, near Mold, 
Flintshire, as a locality where they used to be plentiful. 
This scanty and imperfect sketch can only be taken as giving 
some slight indication (a mere outline, as it were) of the distri- 
bution of this interesting little rodent in England and Wales: the 
lack of notes from many parts of England, such as Derbyshire, 
Rutlandshire, Northamptonshire, &c., may perhaps indicate a lack 
of observers rather than an entire absence of the species in 
question; and the same may be said of Wales, though doubtless 
many districts of that mountainous corner of our island would 
scarcely be adapted to its habits. From among the mass of 
material from which the foregoing has been compiled, but few 
facts have transpired relating to the Natural History of the 
Dormouse, apart from the bare announcement of its existence: 
such as have appeared are, however, of considerable interest. 
Bellamy, in his ‘ Nat. Hist. of South Devon,’ says—‘ In the 
unique collection of G. Leach, Esq., comprising a nearly perfect 
cabinet of British Mammals, there is a white variety of the 
Dormouse, taken in Devon.” Not long since an example having 
a white tip to its tail was advertised for sale in the ‘ Exchange 
and Mart’ by a person living at Berkhampstead, Herts. With 
