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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



MAMMALIA. 



CHIROPTERA. 



The Serotine near Hastings. — On September 3rd an example of the 

 Serotine, Vesperugo serotinus, was sent to me. A few days previously I had 

 noticed three bats leave an outhouse belonging to one of the farms on 

 Mr. W. Lucas-Shadwell'8 estate, and I asked a farm hand to endeavour to 

 capture one and send it to me that I might determine the species. The 

 animal was killed with a hop-pole ; the man seems to have been afraid to 

 take it alive as I desired him to do. A figure of the Serotine, from the 

 graceful pencil of Mr. G. E. Lodge, may be seen in 'The Zoologist' for 

 1891, pi. L, facing page 201. — W. Ruskin Butterfield (10, Stanhope 

 Place, St. Leonard's). 



CARNIVORA. 



Marten in the County Waterford. — The year before last I chronicled, 

 in these pages (Zool. 1895, p, 301), the occurrence of two specimens, male 

 and female, of Martes sylvatica in this neighbourhood. I have again to 

 mention the capture, on December 1st, last year, of a fine male specimen 

 of the same species. It was taken in a rabbit-trap. It measured from tip 

 of snout to end of tail, 26 inches; same measurement to end of tail-hairs, 

 30 inches ; length of body, 17 inches ; length of tail, 8£ inches. It weighed 

 3 lbs. 2£ oz. Throat yellow, with small brown spot. — William W. 

 Flemyng (Coolfin, Portlaw, Co. Waterford). 



The Grey Seal in Carnarvonshire. — In July, 1895, I found an 

 example of this species, Halichcerus gryphus, between seven and eight feet 

 long, on the beach near Afonwen. It had apparently been dead for some 

 time, and much of the carcass had been devoured by crows and gulls. — 

 G. H. Caton Haigh (Grainsby Hall, Great Grimsby). 



RODENTIA. 



Bank Vole in Jersey.— I have pleasure in confirming Mr. Barrett- 

 Hamilton's record of the Bank Vole from Jersey (Zool. 1896, p. 98). Four 

 specimens were trapped on that island by Mr. D. Francis last August, and 

 these have been shown to me. I have not yet had an opportunity of 

 examining and comparing them carefully, but from the impression left on 

 my mind I should hesitate to describe them as "perfectly typical examples," 

 although without comparing them I cannot say wherein the differences (if there 

 be any) lie. — W. Ruskin Butterfield (10, Stanhope Place, St. Leonard's). 



