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the right of the Burmese Gaur to rank as a distinct race, for which I 

 propose the name of Bos gaums readei, making as the type Mr. Eeade's 

 specimen (of which I hope to obtain a photograph later on). The dis- 

 tinctive features of the Burmese Gaur will be the large dewlap, furnished 

 with a fringe of long black hair, and the band of tawny hair above the 

 naked portion of the muzzle. Whether the Malay Saladang is or is not 

 identical with this race must for the present remain uncertain. It is, 

 however, noticeable that the aforesaid young bull from Penang shows 

 a light-coloured area above the muzzle, and the absence of a throat- 

 fringe in that animal might well be due to immaturity. — E. Lydekker 

 (Harpenden Lodge, Harpenden). 



Mus sylvaticus wintoni in Suffolk. — On June 15th my cat brought 

 in an example of this species or variety (cf. ante, p. 150), and on the 

 17th a second, both of which I sent to the Norwich Museum. They were 

 fine specimens, measuring in the flesh nearly nine inches from the tip 

 of the nose to the end of the tail, and, owing to the very cold weather, 

 reached their destination in good condition. The cat by whom they 

 were caught is very tender-mouthed, and nearly always brings in his 

 captures uninjured, the only exception I have noticed being a fine cock 

 Hawfinch, which he caught one day close to the front door. On this 

 occasion the bird probably bit him sharply, as he had mauled it so as 

 to render it useless. Should any readers of this Journal wish for a 

 specimen of the large Field-Mouse in the flesh, and will write to me, I 

 have no doubt that others will turn up, and I shall be pleased to send 

 them on. — Julian G. Tuck (Tostock Eectory, Bury St. Edmunds, 

 Suffolk). 



AVES. 



White Wagtail (Motacilla alba) in the Isle of Man. — On May 3rd 

 last I observed a party of about twelve birds of this species feeding 

 amid cast-up and decaying wrack about high-water mark on the 

 shingle of Castletown Bay. They continued for a week at least to 

 frequent this locality. Mr. F. S. Graves saw a White Wagtail at Peel 

 on May 19th, 1892, and Mr. J. Townsend reported in the 'Field' of 

 April 29th, 1899, a pair seen at Port Erin in the spring of that year. 

 These are, so far as I am aware, the only Manx records, but, as the 

 species is traced on migration from Cornwall along the Welsh coast to 

 the Solway, Clyde, and the Hebrides, its occurrence in Man is doubt- 

 less regular. — P. S. Ealfe (The Parade, Castletown, Isle of Man). 



Abundance of Swifts (Cypselus apus) in South Hants. — The sum- 

 mer visitors to this part of Hampshire have been very irregular and 



