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THE ZOOLOGIST. 



ROUGH NOTES on DERBYSHIRE NATURAL HISTORY, 



1906-1908. 



By the Rev. Francis C. R. Jourdain, M.A., M.B.O.U., &c. 



(Continued from vol. x. p. 142.) 



Of late years I have contributed a series of Ornithological 

 Notes to the 1 Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and 

 Natural History Society,' and the present paper therefore con- 

 tains a, resume of the more important occurrences therein recorded 

 during the past three years, in addition to several records which 

 have hitherto been overlooked. 



Mammalia. 



Lesser Shrew, Sorex minutus, L. — One found in a wood near 

 Repton by Mr. T. Rumney in 1908. It has already been re- 

 corded from this district by Mr. Storer, but is evidently not 

 common. 



Polecat, Putorius putorius (L.). — Mr. Rumney also found the 

 remains of what appears to have been a Polecat near Repton. 

 The last occurrence of this species in an undoubtedly wild state 

 was at Bradley, near Ashburne, in 1900. 



Badger, Meles meles (L.). — On June 13th, 1907, I saw two 

 half-grown Badgers at Osmaston, which had been taken from 

 an earth in Shirley Park. Two were dug out of an earth at 

 Sutton-on-the-Hill on Jan. 22nd, 1908. The male weighed 

 twenty-six pounds. 



Otter, Lutra Intra (L.). — A female, forty-four inches long, 

 was trapped on the Dove, near Okeover, towards the end of 

 January, 1907. 



Aves. 



Song-Thrush, Turdus musicus, L. — A nest with the un- 

 usually large number of six eggs was found at Clifton on June 

 3rd, 1906. 



