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to escape. The Fox silently took it by the nape of the neck, gave 

 one quick shake, and glided away with the limp form hanging from 

 his mouth. The victim was one of the smallest of the colony, being 

 one of a litter born five weeks previously. The other Babbits 

 returned to their interrupted supper in a very few minutes after the 

 departure of the raider. — (Miss) M. Callard (East Dulwich). 



Whiskered Bat (Vespertilio mystacinus) in Lincolnshire. — On 



May 20th last I picked up in my garden here an injured specimen 

 of the Whiskered Bat, and have sent it for preservation for the 

 Lincoln Museum. This, I believe, is the first definite record of the 

 occurrence of the species in this county. Mr. G. H. C. Haigh has 

 failed to find the species in North Lincolnshire (' Zoologist,' 1887, 

 p. 144), and there is no record for the county in the excellent article 

 on this species by Mr. J. B. Harting ('Zoologist,' 1888, pp. 161-166). 

 The late Major Barrett-Hamilton wrote to me on February 13th, 

 1913, that he had no actual record for Lincolnshire, though, taking 

 into consideration its known distribution in East Anglia, it probably 

 occurred in the county. I was not able to include the species 

 definitely in my list of the Lincolnshire mammalia in the ' Trans- 

 actions ' of the Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union, 1912, and so it is 

 satisfactory now to know that the species does occur in the county, 

 at any rate in the district between Lincoln and the Notts border. — 

 F. L. Blathwayt (Doddington Bectory, Lincoln). 



Notes on the Cervidse of Bedfordshire. — Irish Elk (Cervus 

 megaceros). — In the collection of Professor Joseph Prestwick, F.B.S., 

 purchased by the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, in 

 1894, are a lower molar and the base of an antler which are labelled 

 as of this species. They came from the Midland Bailway cutting at 

 Bedford, and were associated with remains of Hippopotamus and 

 Bed Deer. Mr. C. W. Andrews, who kindly gives me the above 

 information, remarks that these specimens are very unsatisfactory 

 material for a definite determination, but certainly agree most nearly 

 with the above species. 



Bed Deer (Cervus elaphus). — In the famous gravel beds at 

 Biddenham and Kempston, as well as in many other localities 

 remains of Bed Deer are frequently found along with palaeolithic 

 implements, the Mammoth, Hippopotamus, Ox, Horse, &c. Mr. 

 J. Wyatt* wrote of great numbers of their antlers, some shed, and 

 others with portion of skull attached, also teeth and bones, being 



* ' Quarterly Journal Geological Society,' vol. xx. p. 186 (1864). 



