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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



MAMMALIA. 



Greater Horseshoe Bat in Wiltshire. — As far as I am aware the 

 Greater Horseshoe Bat has not been recorded from Wiltshire, although 

 it has occurred in the neighbouring counties of Gloucester, Somerset, 

 Dorset, and Hampshire. It will therefore be of interest to record the 

 fact that the Eev. J. H. Brown, of The Rectory, Great Cheverell, 

 Devizes, sent me a fresh specimen of this Bat, taken in the glebe 

 farm adjoining the Rectory, with a letter of June 29th, 1910. Accord- 

 ing to information supplied me by Mr. Brown there is at least a small 

 colony there. Not wanting the specimen, I sent it to the Dublin 

 Museum. — G. E. H. Baebett-Hamilton (Kilmanock House, Campile, 

 Co. Wexford). 



Black Variety of the Water-Shrew in Suffolk. — On July 10th 

 I noticed a dead example of the black variety of the Water- Shrew 

 {Sorex remifer of Bell) lying on the gravel-path close to the church- 

 porch at Blaxhall, Suffolk. The nearest water is about half a mile 

 distant. As this is by no means a common animal in the county 

 perhaps the circumstance may be worth recording. — G. T. Rope 

 (Blaxhall, Suffolk). 



Albino Variety of Common Shrew. — It may be interesting to 

 record that I had given me (June 29th last) an albino variety of the 

 Common Shrew (S. araneus). It appears to be a mature one. The 

 belly is practically pure white, the rest of body and head pale cream. 

 It was killed by haymakers at Dinton, about four miles from here. — 

 Edwin Hollis (The Museum, Aylesbury). 



Albino Wood -Mouse in Montgomeryshire. — On Aug. 1st I received 

 from Mr. Vincent P. Lort a young albino Wood-Mouse (Mtis sylvati- 

 cus) which had been caught alive in a hay-field at Llanllugan, Mont- 

 gomeryshire. So far as I can learn this is the first albino of the 

 species met with in Wales, though there is a buff-coloured specimen 

 (obtained in Cheshire) in the Chester Museum. — H. E. Fobeest 

 (Hillside, Bayston Hill, Shrewsbury). 



