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the tentacles being entirely submerged. In fig. 3 we see a 
portion of the body with only the top of the head in advance. 
This would be more correctly drawn if with two strokes of the 
pencil we were to put a parenthesis () on either side of it, 
touching it at top and bottom to represent the eyes, and allowing 
the very faint projections in the centre of each side of the head, 
as drawn by Mr. Millett, to represent merely the incidence of 
light upon the eyes. In fig. 4 we see an approximately correct 
representation of the hinder pointed extremity of a Squid, with 
a central rib, as Mr. Millett remarks, not unlike the fluke of an 
anchor ; fig. 5 being the same portion of the body seen edgewise. 
It is possible that if these suggestions were applied to other 
previously described monsters we should have, as in the present 
case, an explanation of many a so-called ‘‘ Sea-serpent.”—Ep.] 
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MAMMALIA. 
Variety of the Squirrel.—Mr. Corbin’s remarks (p. 178) must recall 
to most of us the grey pelage worn by the Common Squirrel in Northern 
Europe, and his specimen seems to approximate to the boreal type. 
Dr. V. Fatio, in his masterly work, ‘ Faune des Vertébres de la Suisse,’ 
remarks of the Squirrel that, ‘‘ grey in the north, it is generally reddish or 
inclined to black in Central and Southern Europe.” He also states that 
the black form ranges to a greater elevation than the red one, though he 
adds correctly that these two interbreed, and that black and red young 
ones are often found in the same nest—a fact that I can personally vouch 
for. I have never myself met with the black form in England; but, like 
Mr. Corbin’s grey variety, it may very possibly appear from time to time.— 
H. A. Macpuerson (50, St. John’s Villas, Upper Holloway). 
Curious Capture of a Water Rat.—My neighbour, the Rev. J. F. 
Langford, Vicar of Bere Regis, lately observed that some under-ground 
depredator was making free with his early peas, just appearing above 
ground. There seemed to be a sort of tunnel running along underneath 
the row of peas, and raised here and there like that of a Mole when 
tunnelling just below the surface. This tunnel was traced to some distance 
off in the garden, and the gardener, believing the depredator to be a Mole 
set an ordinary iron mole-trap in the tunnel in the usual way. The trap 
being found snapped the next day, on taking it up the surprise was great 
