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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



MAMMALIA. 



A British Example of the Mouse-coloured Bat. — On going through 

 the Bats at the Cambridge Museum recently, I came across an un- 

 doubted specimen of Myotis myotis, the Mouse-coloured Bat, labelled 

 " Girton, 1888, H. Gadow." Dr. Gadow tells me that it was taken at 

 Girton, and brought to him alive by one of his lady students. There 

 can therefore be no doubt that this is a genuine wild-taken specimen 

 of this species, although probably brought over from the Continent 

 with some plants or other produce. This species is only known in 

 England from some examples taken in the British Museum grounds in 

 Bloomsbury prior to 1835. The actual specimens have been lost sight 

 of, but it is tolerably certain that an example now in the Museum and 

 labelled "England " was one of the original specimens. It has since 

 then been twice recorded, but in both cases the record has been con- 

 tradicted, so that the Cambridge specimen is the first thoroughly 

 authentic British example. The species is extremely abundant on the 

 Continent, and from its large size very conspicuous, so that if it usually 

 occurred in these islands it would not be likely to be overlooked, and 

 we are inclined to think that the specimen under consideration must 

 have owed its transportation to some artificial means. — J. Lewis Bon- 

 hote (Fen Ditton Hall, Cambridge). 



Albino Hedgehog in Yorkshire. — On Aug. 8th I had brought to me 

 a very beautiful albino Hedgehog, which had been captured at Goath- 

 land, Yorks, on Aug. 1st. It was a very pure white upon the spines 

 and hair, the eyes, nails, and naked parts of the skin being of a delicate 

 pink colour. It was alive when brought to me, but, owing to lack of 

 proper nourishment, was in a dying condition, and only lived a few 

 hours after it came into my possession. — W. J. Clarke (44, Huntriss 

 Row, Scarborough). 



Rare Cetaceans on the Yorkshire Coast. — On Aug. 19th my atten- 

 tion was drawn by Sir Robert Lloyd Patterson to the fact that a 

 Beluga or White Whale was disporting itself very close inshore in 

 the South Bay at Scarborough. I was unfortunately too late to see it 



