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district, all of the brood of which were always yellow instead of 

 green. They nested year after year in the same tree, and there was 

 great local competition for the young, such lutinoes fetching a high 

 price even in India ; this no doubt accounts for their extreme rarity 

 in Europe. The fact that such yellow varieties are now very rarely 

 brought to Calcutta may indicate that this pair, or one of them, has 

 met with some mishap, curtailing the always limited supply of the 

 varietal individuals, for which there is always, as above remarked, a 

 market. In our time in Calcutta we knew of two living examples of 

 the lutino variety, and there must have been about half-a-dozen 

 skins in the Museum, mostly, we believe, contributed by Eutledge, 

 the animal dealer, who informed us of the lutino-producing pair 

 above referred to. 



The Mammalia of Hampshire and the Isle op Wight. — The 

 Eev. J. E. Kelsall, The Edctory, New Milton, writes : — " Having 

 been asked by the Hants Field Club to write a short account of our 

 Mammalia, I should be very glad of help from your readers, 

 especially in regard to the following species: — The rarer Bats 

 (especially the Lesser Horseshoe and the Hairy-armed), the Marten 

 (certainly extinct), the Polecat, the Black Eat, the Harvest Mouse, 

 the Yellow-necked Mouse, and the Cetacea. The Field Club have 

 already published lists of the birds and reptiles." 



We hope readers will be able to oblige Mr. Kelsall, and at the 

 same time swell our notes on Mammalia, a group on which the 

 observations are very few compared with those on birds. 



Miss W. Austen writes : — " I was wondering whether it would 

 interest the readers of the ' Zoologist ' to know that I saw a flock of 

 about thirty Long-tailed Tits, very lively and talkative, in the garden 

 of Studio 3, Warwick Avenue, Maida Hill, last October 1st. Is this 

 not a somewhat uncommon bird to be in a London garden ? After 

 scrambling about in the poplar over my studio, they flew to the 

 plane trees on the Eegent's Canal bank. Of course I may be wrong 

 in supposing anything unusual in their appearance in town." Miss 

 Austen is certainly right in thinking the occurrence a curious one ; 

 we have personally never seen the Long-tailed Tit anywhere in 

 London that we can remember, though London birds have been a 

 special study of ours for years. 



Errata. — In ' Zoologist,' January, 1914, on p. 11, mustella should 

 read -mustela; and on p. 25, strurio should read sturio. 



