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The actual speed of the Pigeon is bound to be vastly greater than 

 is attributed to it. Naturally we can only reckon the distance 

 flown, as above stated, by striking a line from the point of toss 

 to that of return ; this, indeed, is our only basis of calculation ; 

 but we are always below, and must ever and always be below, the 

 real distance flown : the only question is — how much below ?" 



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Memoir of the late A. G. More. — Many friends of the late Mr. A. G. 

 More having expressed a wish for the publication of a more extended 

 memoir of him than has yet appeared, those who possess any letters or 

 other papers of importance from him, would greatly oblige by forwarding 

 them, on loan, to his sister, Miss More, 74, Leinster Road, Rathmines, 

 Dublin. 



MAMMALIA. 



The Long-tailed Field Mouse of the Outer Hebrides.— I regret to 

 observe, by Mr. Steele Elliott's communication (p. 4'-26), that in my article 

 in the previous number (p. 369), I overlooked his remarks printed in the 

 'Journal of the Birmingham Natural History Society,' a periodical which, 

 I need hardly say, I have never had an opportunity of seeing. Now that 

 he has kindly acquainted us with the description which he there gives of 

 the mouse obtained by him in St. Kilda, it appears to me that the animal 

 described by him may possibly still be distiuct from that which formed the 

 subject of my article. Mr. Elliott states that the St. Kilda mouse "differs 

 from our ordinary form by the adult having the fur on the back greyish 

 brown, similar to the young of our Long-tailed Field Mouse, instead of 

 reddish brown as in our adult type, and on the belly the fur has a lovely 

 pink shade instead of pure white." Now if this description be compared 

 with that of M us hebridensis, it will be seen that I said nothing about the 

 fur of the back being greyer, nor have I ever seen a mouse with fur of " a 

 lovely pink shade" on the belly. But as this description was admittedly 

 taken from a single specimen, I think it highly probable that it was an 

 individual variation. My description was based on about twenty specimens 

 of all ages and of both sexes, and I find this mouse goes through all the 

 usual colour-changes of the group ; in some cases those still in the grey 

 pelage, with unworn teeth, being found with young. I have six embryos in 

 spirit, taken from a young female hardly more than half grown, and in 

 dark grey coat; and I may say that this is the largest number I have ever 

 found in any mouse of this group, of any age. My article was written just 

 a year ago, not being altered except in the preliminary paragraph, and was 



