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pale yellowish fawn in the middle of the abdomen ; but another at the same 
season had all the under parts, excepting the inside of the thighs and fore 
legs, strongly tinged with yellow fawn. Of thirteen males and one female 
examined during the month of May and the latter part of April, not one 
showed much trace of this peculiar flush of warm colour; and in a female 
taken in July it was only slightly indicated. These animals are particularly 
fond of apples, and both Bank Voles and Long-tailed Field Mice often find 
their way into a fruit-house here, which is situated in the midst of a planta- 
tion, the former regaling themselves on the apples, while the latter confine 
their attention more particularly to the filberts and walnuts. During the 
winter Bank Voles often visit and even take up their abode in outbuildings 
where roots, bulbs, vegetable seeds, &c., are stored; yet those I have kept — 
in cages would not touch carrots, parsnips, or crocus bulbs. In addition to 
the different kinds of food enumerated in Mr. Harting’s article on this 
animal (Zool. 1887, pp. 8369, 370), mine would also eat the berries of the 
holly, and of Cotoneaster microphylla, a3 well as the leaves of the dandelion. 
—G. T. Rope (Blaxhall, Suffolk). 
CETACEA. 
Porpoises at Great Yarmouth.—These animals (Phocena phocena) 
have fared badly here through some reason—perhaps having become 
entangled in the fishermen’s nets, where they died. Twelve dead Porpoises 
have come on shore a few miles north of the town in the latter part of 
October and beginning of November.—A. Patterson (273, Southtown, 
Great Yarmouth). 
AVES. 
Food of the Redwing. —I examined the other day the crops and 
gizzards of several Redwings (Turdus iliacus), which have been very 
numerous. They all contained a goodly number of caterpillars, and the — 
larvee of some beetle. I often think not half enough attention is paid to 
the food of birds by those who have the chance of dissecting them, for it is 
thus that we are enabled to judge of their usefulness or the reverse.— 
Ox Ley GRABHAM (Heworth, York). 
Barred Warbler in Lincolnshire.—I shot an example of the Barred 
Warbler (Sylvia nisoria) on Sept. 5th last from a bunch of brambles in a — 
ditch not far from the coast at North Cotes. The bird was a young female, 
showing no trace of barring except on the tail-coverts, and having the irides 
brown. ‘The weather at the time was fine and very hot, with a light east — 
wind. With the exception of a single Willow Wren and a young Spotted 
Flycatcher, no other migrants were seen on that day. This bird is an © 
addition to the Lincolnshire list, and is, I believe, the thirteenth British 
