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 NOTES AND QUERIES. 



MAMMALIA. 



Hybrid Manx Cats: Gradual restoration of Tail.— A friend has 

 sent rae some curious statistics in reference to the progeny of a female 

 Manx Cat and an ordinary Tom Cat in his possession. The successive 

 litters consisted of three on each occasion. Thus : — 



No Tails. Half Tails. Full Tails. 



1st litter 3 ... ... 



2nd „ 2 ... 1 ... 



3rd „ 1 ... 2 ... 



4th „ ... 2 ... 1 



5th „ ... 1 ... 2 



6th , ... ... 3 



The gradual elimination of the tailless condition characteristic of the 

 famous insular grimalkins is somewhat singular, and points out the 

 strength of the ancestral reversion which is always striving to assert itself 

 in all breeds of domestic animals. — Robert Service (Maxvvelltown, 

 Dumfries). 



Distribution of the Alpine Hare in S.W. Scotland. — In several of 

 the local reports from the southern moors notice has been taken of the 

 shooting of Blue Hares. This alpine species may now be considered 

 thoroughly established in all suitable localities throughout the south and 

 south-west of Scotland. It was introduced at Glenbuck in 1861. Within 

 the next four years it had spread to the Lowthers and contiguous heights, 

 to Queensberry, and to many of the hills at the head of Annandale. Then 

 it began to progress westwards to the Southern Highlands, and soon 

 populated all the picturesque mountains from whence flow the Galloway 

 rivers on the one side, and the Ayrshire streams on the other. A great 

 extension of the species took place during the hard winters of 1878, 1879, 

 and 1880, and specimens were got on such isolated spots as CrifTel and 

 Screel, and even on the Kirkgunzeon moors ; and I was shown a young 

 one that had been mistaken for a rabbit and shot on Dalscairth — a low and 

 unexpected situation in which to find this height-loving species. — Robert 

 Service (Maxwelltown, Dumfries). 



[For further particulars on this subject see Zool. 1893, p. 265. — Ed.] 



A White Hare in Essex. — On Manning Farm, about two and a half 

 miles from Laindon, during the last week of September, a pure white 

 Hare was shot, but with eyes of the ordinary colour. — Samuel Hunt 

 (Southend). 



[For other notices of white Hares, see Zool. 1889, p. 143 ; 1890, p. 70 ; 



