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NOTES AND QUERIES. 

MAMMALIA. 
A New Australian Mammal.—In ‘The Zoologist’ for November, 
1888, under this heading (p. 424) we referred to the then recent discovery 
near Adelaide of a small burrowing animal, externally resembling the 
Cape Mole (Chrysochloris), but differing from it as we pointed out in several 
important respects. Another new mammal from Australia has since been 
described by Prof. Milne-Edwards, in a memoir lately published by the 
Société Philomathique de Paris. He refers it to the genus Dactylopsila 
from New Guinea, and has named it Dactylopsila palpator. It is said to 
be remarkable for the extraordinary length of the fourth digit of the fore- 
limb, which is more than an inch longer than the adjoining digits, exceeding 
even in its proportions the curious third finger of the Madagascar Aye-Aye 
(Chiromys madagascariensis). ' 
BIRDS. 
Note on Willow Wrens.—In reply to Mr. Gurney’s suggestion (p.77), 
that the large, light-coloured, yellowish warbler shot by me at Cley was a 
Wood Warbler, I wish to say that the wing-formule, and especially the 
comparatively long first primary, proved that it was an undoubted Willow 
Wren. It was apparently an example of the large and (so-called) dark- 
legged race, of which Lord Clifton wrote in ‘ The Field’ for August 16th, 
1884. Lord Clifton described a male of this race, received from’ Mr. 
Swaysland, of Brighton, in spring, as considerably larger than the Wood 
Wren, of a deep brownish olive above,—something like the Garden 
Warbler,—with a band of deep buff, inclining to yellow, across the breast ; 
and a female, received with the eggs, as having the same distribution of 
buff, but much paler, and the upper parts greyish olive without any brown 
tint; legs in both, neutral coffee-brown, but not so dark as in the Chiff- 
chaff; feet as dark as, if not darker than, the legs. It is upon this last 
point that Lord Clifton lays great stress, stating that in the typical Willow 
Wren the feet are yellowish, and at all ages paler than the legs; soles of 
the feet bright yellow. I have a skin of the large Willow Wren, shot at 
Spurn Point, Yorkshire, in August, 1885 (apparently a bird of the year), 
and given to me by Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., which agrees very well with 
~ my note of the Cley bird (which was not preserved), and also (making 
allowance for the difference in the time of the year at which the specimens 
were procured, and the different ages of the birds, Lord Clifton’s being 
presumably adult) agrees in some points with the description in ‘The 
Field’ above quoted. My specimen is quite as large as, if not larger than, 
