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and, I am sorry to say, I have heard of several others having been killed 

 during the same period. They breed regularly on the small remaining portion 

 of Todmorton Heath, about six miles from Banbury. I am informed that 

 one of the largest of those procured weighed forty pounds ; this was late in 

 autumn, when they would of course be very fat. — Oliver V. Aplin 

 (Banbury, Oxon). 



The Whiskered Bat (Vespertilio mystacinus, Leisler), in Yorkshire. 

 — I have had the pleasure of adding this species to the Yorkshire list 

 of mammals, three specimens, from three different localities, having passed 

 through my hands within the last nine months. The first, from Great 

 Mytton in Ribblesdale, is recorded in the ' Handbook of the Vertebrate 

 Fauna of Yorkshire.' A second was shot near Harrogate, in August, 1881, 

 by Mr. John Grange; and I have just received a third in the flesh from 

 Mr. James Iugleby, of Eavestone, near Ripon, who found it in a cavern 

 near that place, which is a favourite haunt of bats. He tells me that it was 

 the only one he found in the cave on his last visit, and that it is quite new 

 to his neighbourhood, he not having seen one of the species before. Of other 

 bats, the Noctule, the Pipistrelle, and the Long-eared Bat are all of more 

 or less common occurrence, and generally distributed throughout the county, 

 and the wonder to me in the case of the Noctule is, considering its wide 

 diffusion over Yorkshire, even as far north as Whitby and Northallerton, 

 that it should not be known to inhabit the counties of Durham and 

 Northumberland. None of my correspondents have as yet been able to 

 ascertain that Daubenton's Bat (which, judging from Bell's ' British Quad- 

 rupeds,' is extremely likely to be found) occurs in the county of York. I 

 have indeed had it reported, but no specimens have been forthcoming. — 

 Wm. Denison Roebuck (Sunny Bank, Leeds) 



Bottle-nosed Dolphin in the Colne. — On March 12th two Dolphins 

 were observed in this river, near Wyvenhoe Wood, and, after several 

 attempts, one, a female, was shot. On examination she proved to be of the 

 Bottle-nosed species, Delphinus tursio. She was seven feet six inches in 

 length to the bifurcation of the tail. Examinations of captured Porpoises 

 would probably show that this species is not nearly so rare as is generally 

 supposed. — Henry Laver (Colchester). 



Albino Grouse in Mayo. — From my friend Mr. J. H. Scott, of Balliua, 

 I have received (as a loan for our museum ), a very singnlar variety of Grouse. 

 It is a female bird, shot early last December, on a moor called Lugnalettin, 

 near Ballycastle, on the borders of Erris, and was killed by Mr. A. Malley, 

 when shooting on the moor which belongs to Mr. Scott. The bird is very 

 pale in the general markings, and the quills are much paler than usual. 



