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when, and by whom? — Arthur H. Macpherson (51, Gloucester Place, 

 Hyde Park). 



[The white Hares seen on Snowdon are no doubt descendants of those 

 turned out some years ago by Mr. Assheton Smith, of Vaynol Park, near 

 Bangor, from whose windows the snow-capped Snowdon may be seen. 

 Our note-book reminds us that, in the course of a week's shooting which 

 we enjoyed on this estate in January, 1888, the number of Hares bagged 

 from day to day, in addition to a variety of other game and wildfowl, 

 was 62, 81, 78, 48, and 45, or a total of 314. Of these fully two-thirds 

 were Lepus variabilis. — Ed.] 



Habits of the Great Noctule Bat.—Last year (Zool. 1889, p. 258), 

 I sent you an account of the first flight of the Noctule Bats after their 

 winter hybernation, or at least the first evening when they were observed 

 to issue from the top gable of my house, when I counted fifty-seven of 

 them: this happened on May 17th, 1889, at 8 p.m. On the 21st of this 

 present month of May I again counted seventy-eight of them emerge from 

 the same spot at 8 p.m. exactly, though I was informed they had appeared 

 a few days previously. It is curious that they should observe such regular 

 seasons and hours. When they come out they fly away immediately at a 

 great height and to a considerable distance into the marshes, so that they 

 all disappear in a very few minutes. After a flight of an hour or two 

 they return to the house, but after some weeks they entirely disappear. 

 I presume they take shelter in lofty trees elsewhere, and it is not till about 

 the following September that they return to the houses. In April, 1884, 

 I took some hybernating from a large willow tree ; and with the exception 

 of the months of May and June, I have not noticed them till Sept. 3rd (1882), 

 Sept. 5th (1886), and Sept. 15th (1887). On these occasions specimens 

 were shot and identified. We have several other bats in this neighbourhood 

 that observe different seasons, and perhaps later on I may be able to send 

 you further particulars of them, but I thought you might like to record 

 these notes now. — George Dowker (Stourmouth House, Wingham, Kent). 



CETACEA. 



White-beaked Dolphin on the Norfolk Coast. — On the 16tb of 

 April I saw at Yarmouth a very handsome specimen of this Dolphin, 

 which had been stranded alive the previous evening on the beach, at the 

 entrance to the river Yare at Gorleston. It was an adult female, 6 ft. 3^ in. 

 in a straight line from the tip of the beak to the medial notch of the caudal 

 fin. I believe it was sent for exhibition somewhere in the Midland 

 Counties. — T. Southwell (Norwich). 



