120 bibliography: mammalia, 1886 and 1887. 



Edwd. Elmhirst. Line. N. 



The Hen Harrier in Lincolnshire Sixty Years Ago [on the waste lands or 

 commons between Market Rasen and Caistor about 1824-5 I i n which were 

 abundance of all kinds of game and vermin, Foxes ( Vulpes vulgaris), Badgers 

 (Meles taxus), Polecats (Afuslela putorius), Stoats (M. erminea), Weasels 

 (M. vulgaris). Rats (A/us decumanus), and Hedgehogs (Erinaeeus europaus) 

 being enumerated ; and particular note made of a quite white Badger taken 

 at Claxby, and exhibited at the famous Exeter Change Menagerie some 60 

 years ago]. Field, Nov. 27th, 1886, p. 800. 



J. W. Linn.cus M. Tristram Fawcett. Northumberland S. 



Badgers [Melts taxus] in Northumberland [at Low Staples, May 1885]. 

 Nat., April 1886, p. 112. 



J. W. Linn.eus M. Tristram Fawcett. Durham. 



Badgers \Meles taxus] in Durham [five occurrences quoted, with dates]. 

 Nat., April 1886, p. 112. 



J. W. Linn.-eus M. Tristram Fawcett. Durham. 



Captures of Otters \Lutra vulgaris] in County Durham [in two Weardale 



localities]. Nat., April 1886, p. 113. 



Francis R. Fitzgerald. York Mid W. 



Pied Variety of the Short-tailed Field Vole [(Arvicola agrestis) at 

 Harrogate, July 1886]. Zool., Dec. 1886, x. 485. 



Thomas Ford. York N.W. 



Singular adventure with a Stoat [{Muslela erminea), which had seized a 



hooked trout in Crackpot Beck, Swaledale]. Field, Nov. 7th, 1885, p. 671. 



Riley Fortune. York Mid W. 



[Variety of Field Vole (no doubt Arvicola agrestis), pied with white and 

 grey, on Killinghall Moor, Yorkshire]. Garner, 1886, p. 14. 



Leonard Gaunt. York S.E. 



The Yorkshire Naturalists' Union at Pocklington [24th June, 1885; 

 Whiskered Bat (Vespertilio mystaeinus) noted]. Nat., Aug. 1885, p. 308. 



Leonard Gaunt. York S.W. 



The Yorkshire Naturalists' Union at Askern [20th May, 1886 ; Talpa and 

 Crossopus noted]. Nat., June 1886, p. 189. 



G. H. Caton Haigh. Line. N. 



Notes on Bats in North Lincolnshire [which are five in number— Seoto- 

 philus noetula, common ; S. pipistrellus, abundant ; Vespertilio nattereri, 

 once seen; V. daubentonii, local rather than rare; and Plecotus auritus, 

 common ; notes on occurrence and habits given ; Barbastellus and V. 

 mystaeinus indicated aslikelyto be found]. Zool., April 1887, xi. 142-144. 



Allan B. Hall. York N.E. 



Notes from Thirsk [Otters (Lutra vulgaris) in Codbeck], Nat. Hist. Journ., 

 Feb. 15th, 1887, xi. 16. [Badger (Meles taxus) caught in a steel trap]. 

 Nat. Hist. Journ., May 16th, 1887, xi. 85. 



C. C. Hanson. York S.W. 



Foumarts [Mustela putorius] near Huddersfield [on Marsden moors, Feb. 

 and March, 1884]. Nat., April 1886, p. 113. 



Iames Hardy. Northumberland S. and Cheviotland. 



Report of Meetings of Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, for the year 

 1885. . . . Rothbury [24th June; the last Wolf (Canis lupus) of the dis- 

 trict slain at a place now called Wolfs Fauld or Wolf's Holes]. Proc. 



Berw. Nat. Club for 1885 [pub. 1886], xi. 36. 



Naturalist, 



