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for a young Wolf, 40 fr. Only thirty-one departments are enumerated in 
which no Wolf was killed, whilst the number in the remaining departments 
varies between 1 and 131. Wolves were killed in the following depart- 
ments :—Dordogne, 131; Meuse, 122; Haute-Vienne, 107; Haute-Marne, 
89; Meurthe-et-Moselle, 81; Vosges, 71; Charente, 66; Corréze, 58; 
Haute-Sadne, 55; Cote-d’Or, 54; between 10 and 50 in the departments 
of Aube, Creuse, Vienne, Morbihan, Indre, Finistére, Charente-Inférieure, 
Cher, Cotes-du-Nord, Ardennes, Cantal, Marne, Mayenne, Puy-de-Dome, 
Sadne-et-Loire, Sévres (Deux), and Var, whilst in twenty-eight departments 
the number of wolves killed during the year was below 10. 
Wild Animals in Algeria.—In the eleven years from 1873 to 1884 
the number of Lions killed in Algeria was 202, for which a premium of £400 
has been paid by the Government. The number of Panthers destroyed in 
the same period was 1214, and the money paid by the Government £720. 
About £400 has been paid for 1882 Hyznas, and £1600 for 27,000 
Jackals. The large Felid@ are almost extirpated, principally in the western 
provinces, and the Lion of the Desert is fast becoming a myth. 
White Chamois, White Otter, and White Fox in Germany.—We 
learn from ‘Nature’ that in Germany an unusual number of white varieties 
of animals have been noticed this winter. ‘A white Chamois was shot in the 
Totengebirge, a white Otter was caught near Luxemburg, white Partridges 
were shot near Brunswick, and a white Fox was killed in Hessen.” It is to 
be regretted that no further details have been forwarded, since, with the 
exception of the Partridge, white varieties of these animals are by no means 
common. Von Tschudi, in his important work on the Alps, mentions a 
white Chamois which was killed in 1858, in the Grissons, between Bonaduz 
and Versam, and particulars of three others will be found in ‘ The Zoologist,’ 
1878, p. 337. There is a white Otter in the Belfast Museum, which was 
shot at Islay in April, 1850; while, in the present number, Mr. Cecil 
Smith reports the recent capture of a white Fox in Somersetshire. 
A White Fox in Somersetshire.—A white Fox seems to be a suffi- 
ciently rare occurrence in this county to be worth a note in ‘ The Zoologist.’ 
On Tuesday, February 2nd, the Taunton Vale Hounds met at Cotheleston, 
and in the course of the day we found and ran a white Fox. He was, as 
may be supposed, a most conspicuous object before the hounds, especially 
at one time, when they were running on the opposite side of one of the 
Quantock combes to which most of the field were, and we could see him 
going along about two fields ahead of the hounds, when another Fox would 
hardly have been noticed. Eventually he was run to earth, dug out, and 
killed. The next day I had an opportunity of examining him. He was a 
dog Fox, about ordinary size, nearly all white, the only fox-colour being the 
back part of the ears, a patch on the top of the back just behind the 
