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written originally for the 'Annals of Scottish Natural History,' but was not 

 sent in, for the reason I gave, that I hoped to revisit the islands; but a 

 note recording the " Long-tailed Field Mouse in the Outer Hebrides" was 

 inserted in the January number of that Journal instead. In this notice I 

 mentioned St. Kilda as a locality in which this mouse occurs, and I wrote 

 this from seeing a specimen at the British Museum, which I understood 

 had been obtained by the minister of that islaud ; but as I was informed 

 that no others had been received, and as this single specimen was in spirit, 

 and useless so far as measurements were concerned, I did not think it 

 worth mentioning in my article. For comparison I have looked at some- 

 thing like 300 skins, a great number of which were collected and preserved 

 by myself and measurements taken in the flesh, from nearly every county 

 in the British Islands, and I find that those received from Ross, Cromarty, 

 Skye, and all also parts of Ireland, are perfectly typical Mus sylvaticus. I 

 have not yet received any specimens from Orkney, but there seemed no reason 

 to wait for these, as it could not possibly affect my description. As to the 

 Inner Hebrides, they are merely part of Scotland, and the fauna is not 

 likely to differ from that of the mainland. — VV. E. de Winton. 



Harvest Mouse in Shropshire. — In your interesting article on the 

 Harvest Mouse (pp. 418 — 4*25) I note that you do not include Shropshire 

 amongst the counties in which it has been found. In 1872, when on a 

 visit to the late Mr. W. Hyslop, in the village of Church Stretton, twelve 

 or fifteen miles from Shrewsbury, one of the children brought in a Harvest 

 Mouse. I enquired where she had found it, and went to the place in search 

 of others. It was a low, flat bit of marshy land (afterwards reclaimed), 

 through which ran an open, sluggish streamlet, and on the margin of which 

 grew rushes. A portion of the upper end of the field skirting the road to 

 Little Stretton was cultivated, and growing oats. After much search I 

 found the remains of three nests, empty, and one with only two young ones 

 in it, full grown and lively. That would be in August, or early in 

 September, for the oats were ripe. I was informed that these mice were 

 ''quite common " there. It was in the same neighbourhood, high np on 

 the Long Mynd Mountain, that I once encountered an Otter, one very clear 

 moonlight night, twelve miles from any stream. There had been a long 

 spell of dry weather, if I mistake not. I have seen Harvest Mice in Ayr- 

 shire, in the Mauchline district, forty years ago, where they were then 

 common. — G. W. Murdoch (Milnthorpe, Westmorland). 



Provincial Names of Animals.— In Earwaker's ' East Cheshire ' 

 several extracts are giveu from the accounts of the wardens of the parish 

 church at Wilmslow, and, among other entries, are records of two disburse- 

 ments for " Maupe " heads, sixpence being paid for six heads in 1660, and 

 sixpence for sixteen heads in 1669. The author suggests that Moles were 

 referred to, but if that animal had been intended, it is more probable that 

 " Moudy warp," a name still in use among the country people in Cheshire, 



