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there can be little doubt that its detection there will be merely a 

 matter of time. 



In Yorkshire, according to Messrs. Clarke and Roebuck 

 (Handbook Yorks. Vert. p. 14), it has been reported from a few 

 localities scattered irregularly over the whole county. In Upper 

 Nidderdale it is considered common ('Naturalist,' 1886, p. 197). 

 In Lancashire, Mr. George Roberts, of Lofthouse, Wakefield, 

 whilst visiting at Lythara, in April, 1866, found a dead Bank 

 Vole in its nest, which was formed in a heap of potatoes and 

 composed of soft short straws (Zool. 1866, p. 206). 



In Derbyshire the Bank Vole was noticed by the late 

 Mr. Harpur Crewe at Calke Abbey, where, in February, 1863, he 

 obtained half a dozen specimens (Zool. 1863, p. 8554). The 

 following spring he announced the capture of more than thirty 

 others at the same place during the preceding twelve months 

 (Zool. 1864, p. 9016). So that in South Derbyshire, at all 

 events, it would seem to be tolerably common. 



In regard to Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire information 

 is wanting. 



As regards Staffordshire, no mention of the Bank Vole is 

 made by Garner in his ' Natural History of Staffordshire ' 

 (1844), although he includes the Short-tailed Vole {Arvicola 

 agrestis) as " very common." Mr. John R. B. Masefield, how- 

 ever, in a more recent account of the existing indigenous 

 Mammalia of North Staffordshire (1886), states (p. 13) that it is 

 far from uncommon in the district of Cheadle ; it is an animal 

 as well as a vegetable feeder ; and that one was taken in a trap 

 baited with flesh-meat. 



For Shropshire, so far as has been ascertained, a report on 

 the existing small Mammalia is still wanting. 



In Leicestershire, Mr. Montagu Browne has not met with 

 the Bank Vole (Zool. 1885, p. 219), although he has some reason 

 to believe that it occurs there. 



From Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire information is 

 desirable. 



In Cambridgeshire we have the authority of the Rev. L. 

 Jenyns (now Blomefield) for stating that it is a native (Man. Brit. 

 Vert. An. p. 34). 



Berkshire also, on the same authorit}', may be added to the 

 list of counties in which it has been found. 



