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  NOTES 
  AND 
  QUERIES. 
  

  

  MAMMALIA. 
  

  

  Hybernation 
  of 
  the 
  Noctule 
  Bat. 
  — 
  Living 
  in 
  the 
  immediate 
  neigh- 
  

   bourhood 
  of 
  the 
  River 
  Severn, 
  over 
  the 
  course 
  of 
  which 
  waterway 
  the 
  

   Noctule 
  may 
  be 
  very 
  commonly 
  observed, 
  I 
  have 
  been 
  able 
  to 
  carefully 
  

   notify 
  during 
  the 
  present 
  year 
  the 
  first 
  and 
  last 
  appearance 
  of 
  this 
  

   species. 
  The 
  first 
  seen 
  on 
  the 
  wing 
  was 
  on 
  Feb. 
  22nd, 
  an 
  exceptionally 
  

   early 
  date, 
  the 
  next 
  not 
  being 
  observed 
  until 
  March 
  21st, 
  after 
  which 
  

   date 
  they 
  became 
  common. 
  Oct. 
  26th 
  was 
  the 
  last 
  date, 
  when 
  several 
  

   were 
  seen 
  during 
  the 
  one 
  evening, 
  and 
  on 
  Nov. 
  1st 
  (Nov. 
  11th 
  in 
  1903), 
  

   a 
  solitary 
  one 
  observed. 
  This 
  leaves 
  only 
  the 
  two 
  months 
  of 
  January 
  

   and 
  December 
  in 
  which 
  the 
  species 
  was 
  not 
  noted. 
  — 
  J. 
  Steele-Elliott 
  

   (Dowles 
  Manor, 
  Worcestershire). 
  

  

  Pale-coloured 
  Himalayan 
  Bear. 
  — 
  With 
  reference 
  to 
  the 
  notice 
  (ante, 
  

   p. 
  222) 
  of 
  a 
  cream-coloured 
  Himalayan 
  Black 
  Bear 
  (Ursus 
  torquatus) 
  

   living 
  in 
  the 
  Amsterdam 
  Zoological 
  Gardens, 
  and 
  as 
  light-coloured 
  

   Bears 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  would 
  seem 
  to 
  be 
  of 
  very 
  rare 
  occurrence, 
  it 
  may 
  

   be 
  of 
  interest 
  to 
  record 
  that 
  in 
  Kashmir, 
  on 
  Sept. 
  3rd, 
  1890, 
  I 
  shot 
  a 
  

   female 
  Black 
  Bear, 
  which 
  was 
  accompanied 
  by 
  two 
  cubs, 
  each 
  about 
  

   four 
  months 
  old, 
  both 
  of 
  which 
  were 
  secured 
  alive. 
  One 
  was 
  of 
  the 
  

   normal 
  colour, 
  but 
  had 
  unfortunately 
  to 
  be 
  destroyed, 
  owing 
  to 
  an 
  

   injury 
  received 
  during 
  capture 
  ; 
  the 
  other 
  one 
  was 
  of 
  a 
  very 
  light 
  brown 
  

   colour, 
  which 
  probably 
  would 
  have 
  turned 
  lighter 
  with 
  age 
  ; 
  the 
  claws 
  

   were 
  of 
  a 
  light 
  horn-colour, 
  and 
  the 
  eyes 
  were 
  pink 
  like 
  an 
  albino's. 
  

   It 
  had 
  the 
  white 
  horseshoe 
  mark 
  on 
  the 
  chest, 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  exception 
  

   of 
  colour 
  conformed 
  in 
  every 
  way, 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  could 
  be 
  seen 
  — 
  such 
  as 
  the 
  

   texture 
  of 
  the 
  pelage, 
  size 
  and 
  shape 
  of 
  claws, 
  &c. 
  — 
  to 
  an 
  ordinary 
  

   Black-Bear 
  cub. 
  The 
  young 
  Bear 
  in 
  question 
  had 
  to 
  be 
  left 
  in 
  

   Kashmir 
  on 
  my 
  return 
  to 
  the 
  plains, 
  and, 
  as 
  I 
  left 
  India 
  shortly 
  

   afterwards, 
  I 
  never 
  ascertained 
  what 
  eventually 
  became 
  of 
  him. 
  In 
  

   ' 
  The 
  Zoologist 
  ' 
  (1899, 
  p. 
  316) 
  an 
  albino 
  Bear 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  is 
  

   recorded 
  as 
  living 
  at 
  that 
  time 
  in 
  the 
  above 
  mentioned 
  Gardens. 
  — 
  

   H. 
  Meyrick 
  (Clevedon, 
  Somerset). 
  

  

  Pine 
  Marten 
  (Mustek 
  martes) 
  in 
  Furness. 
  — 
  About 
  May 
  13th, 
  

   1902. 
  a 
  " 
  Sweetmart" 
  was 
  caught 
  in 
  a 
  Rabbit-trap 
  in 
  the 
  Rusland 
  

  

  