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suggest great possibilities in the way of aquatic warblers and 

 rallidse ; and the high ground of the Mendip, offering a tempting 

 resting-place for passing migratory birds, must often have been 

 visited by rare and unrecorded species. The Norfolk Plover 

 frequently occurs there, the Mendip being at no great distance 

 from those districts in Wilts where it is still a regular summer 

 migrant. 



Since writing the above I have come across the notice of a 

 Woodchat Shrike, Lanius rutilus, in the Eev. A. C. Smith's ' Birds 

 of Wilts,' p. 123, which he states is in his collection, and " was 

 killed in the county of Somerset, within a short distance of 

 Bristol." 



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MAMMALIA. 



Wolves nurturing Children. — T have been much interested by your 

 reprint, in the March number of ' The Zoologist,' of the late General 

 Sir William Sleeman's pamphlet on "Wolves nurturing Children in their 

 Dens." Having myself seen the lad first mentioned in the narrative, and 

 as I think there are those still alive who could endorse what is therein 

 stated about the boy, I take the liberty of addressing you, in the hope that 

 this corroboration may still be procurable through your agency. When 

 I saw this Wolf-nurtured lad I was myself a child, living with my father, 

 the late Colonel Robert Traup, who then commanded the 2nd Oudh Local 

 Infantry Regiment, at Sultanpur, Oudh, and, if my memory serves me 

 aright, the boy was then in the charge of either Major A. P. Orr or Major 

 Douglas Bunbury, both of the King of Oudh's service; I think in that of 

 the former. Major A. P. Orr is still living in London (somewhere about 

 Kensington or Norwood, I think), and Major Douglas Bunbury at 

 Inverness, N.B. Messrs. King & Co., or some of the other India Agents, 

 perhaps know the correct addresses. — Norman E. Traup (Mulla-Kuttyoor 

 Tea Estate, "Lockington," Kuttyoor, Kumaon, N.W.P., India). 



Otters and Polecats in Suffolk. — Referring to Mr. Rope's note under 

 this heading (p. 183), I am afraid he will deem me a very old fogey if 

 I refer him to ' The Zoologist' for 1 849, for a note by me on the common 

 occurrence of the Polecat in my old home in those days. Then not a year 

 passed without several being killed, especially in the autumu, when they 

 made their way up from the fen to the high land. True, my notes did not 

 exactly refer to Suffolk, but the parish was only separated from that county 



