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James Hardy. Northumberland S. 



Report of Meetings of Berwickshire Naturalists' Club for the year 

 1885. . . . Haughton Castle, Simonburn Church, and Chipchase 

 Castle, North Tyne [30th July ; horns of Cervus elaphus dredged from the 

 Tyne near Dunston in 1875]. Proc. Berw. Nat. Club for 1885 [pub. 1886], 

 xi. 63. 



John Harrison. York N.E. 



[The (probably) last Yorkshire Marten-Cat (Martes sylvestris).] Nat. Hist. 

 Journ., April 15th, 1887, xi. 60. 



J. E. Harting. York S.E., Notts., Durham, Northumberland S. 



Beavers [Castor fiber] and their ways [Beverley, Yorkshire, and Bevercotes, 

 Notts., referred to as place-name evidence of former occurrence in Britain 

 (p. 273) ; laws and customs instituted for Newcastle-on-Tyne by Henry I., 

 and confirmed by subsequent roval charters, specified among the exports from 

 the Tyne the skins of Foxes ( Vulpes vulgaris), Martens (Martes sylvestris), 

 Sables [probably Polecats (Mustela putorius)\ Beavers, Goats (Capra hircus), 

 and Squirrels (Sciums vulgaris) (p. 282)]. Zool., July 1886, x. 273 and 282. 



J. E. Harting. Northumberland, Line. N. 



The Origin of the Domestic Cat [{Felis catus) ; in which the example shot 

 in 1853 at Eslington, Northumberland, is considered as the last genuine 

 Wild Cat seen in England, the Lincolnshire example of 1883 (Bullington 

 Wood) being regarded as a reversion from the domestic to the wild type]. 

 Field, Nov. 27th, 1886, p. 800. 



J. E. Harting. York Mid W. 



Irish Deer [Megaceros hibernicus ; with a foot-note alluding incidentally to its 

 having been found at Cowthorpe in Yorkshire]. Field, Dec. iSth, 1886, 

 p. 884. 



J. E. Harting. York N.W., Durham. 



Remarks on British Bats [of which generic tables are given ; reference 

 made to Northallerton being the northernmost station for the Noctule 

 ( Vesperugo uoctula), and to the Cleadon specimen in the Newcastle Museum 

 ascribed to V. serotinus being probably V. iioctitla], Zool., May 1887, xi. 

 161-171. 



J. E. Harting. Yorkshire, Durham. 



Northern Limit of the Range of the Noctule \Vesperugo mctuld\ in Great 

 Britain [giving in full Messrs. T. Southwell's and W. Denison Roebuck's 

 reasons for believing the Newcastle Museum specimen of the ' Serotine' from 

 Cleadon to be a Noctule ; copious extracts from ' The Naturalist ' as to other 

 Durham occurrences]. Zool., July 1887, xi. 260-262. 



J. E. Harting. Northumbld., Cumbld., Yorksh., Lancsh., Derbysh. 



On the Bank Vole, Arvicola glareolus (Schreber) [including a summary of 

 what is known of its distribution in Britain, records being cited for 

 Northumberland, Cumberland, Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Derbyshire ; and 

 one from Allonby, Cumberland, is figured on the plate]. Zool., Oct. 1887, 

 xi. 361-371, and plate v. 



J. E. Harting. York N.W., York Mid W., York S.W., Line. N. 



The Mole, Talpa europaea (Linn.) [reference made to its being observed on 

 the top of Ingleborough, Yorkshire, and on the highest point of the Lincoln- 

 shire North Wolds ; to Mr. George Roberts' observations on the soils it 

 frequents ; to its swimming the Yorkshire Greta ; and to albinoes in Nidder- 

 dale and elsewhere]. Zool., Dec. 1887, xi. 441-448, and plate vi. 



J. F. HILLS [, Secretary]. York N.E. 



York, Bootham, Natural History Club [Polecat (Mustela putorius), queried, 

 Sandsend near Whitby]. Nat. Hist. Journ., Sep. 15th, 1887, xi. 132. 



April 1889. 



