154 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 1 884: MAMMALIA. 



Thomas Ford. Lincolnshire. 

 Exportation of Stoats to New Zealand. Field, December 6th, p. 771, and 

 other journals. 



Mr. Allbones, of Brigg, has collected 158 Stoats {Mustela erjninea) and 

 Weasels {M. vulgaris) for this purpose ; his third consignment. 



Edward J. Gibbins. YorksMre. 

 Origin of the name 'Lobster' applied to the Stoat \_MzisteIa erminea]. 

 Zool., April, p. 153-4. 



Quotes Mr. John Hawell's statement that it is called 'Clubster' near North- 

 allerton, and Mr. J. A. Wheldon's that about Scarborough it is called 

 ' Clubstart,' and discusses the etymology of these terms. 



J. E. Harting. 



Greater Horse-shoe Bat at Oxford. Zool., December, p. 483. Yorkshire. 



Has a 'note of one taken at Carperley, Wensleydale, by Mr. Carter, of 

 Burton House, Bedale.' [The specimen here referred to was a Noctule 

 { Vespemgo noctiila). — W.D.R.] 



Robert Lee. 



Additions to the Yorkshire Fauna. Field, May 31st, p. 737. Yorkshire. 



Record of a ' curiously coloured Stoat,' brought on May 23rd. It was mostly 

 yellowish dun, and the tail was not black, whereupon the Editor suggests that 

 it may be a large Weasel. 

 T. Lister. Yorkshire. 

 Natural History Notes for the Barnsley and South Yorkshire District, 

 Naturalist, February, ix. 118. 



Records of Otter {LiiU'a vulgaris) and Bat {Vespertilio pipistrelliis) in 

 autumn, 1883. 



N. McLachlan. Durham. 

 Range of the Dormouse \_Myoxiis avellanarius'\ in England. Field, April 

 5th, p. 488. 



Observed some fourteen or fifteen years ago, at Headlam, a village about 

 half way between Darlington and Barnard Castle. 



A. M. Norman. Northumberland. 

 Address to . . the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club. . . May 27th, 188 1. 

 N. H. Trans. Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle, viii. 68 (1884). 

 Water Rat {Arvicola amphibia) noted at Corbridge-on-Tyne, June 6th, i88a 

 T. N. P[ostlethwaite]. Cumberland. 

 Range of the Dormouse in England. Field, April 5th, p. 488. 



Has frequently met with it in the district of Millom, South Cumberland. 

 One was shown him some winters ago frozen to a piece of wood, and in 

 1883, while trout fishing, a boy with him found one amongst the rocks on the 

 bank of the stream. 



W. Denison Roebuck and W. Eagle Clarke. Yorkshire. 

 Notes on the Vertebrate Fauna of Yorkshire. Zool., May, pp. 171 -184; 

 Naturalist, April and May, pp. 147-151, 167-176. 



Supplemental-)' to the authors' work on ' The Vertebrate Fauna of York- 

 shire,' 1 88 1. 



Wm. Denison Roebuck. Yorkshire. 

 Natterer's Bat {Vesperiilio nattereri'\ at Pateley Bridge. Naturalist, June, 

 ix. 194 and 197. 



A second instance, confirmatory of its first occurrence in that locality. 

 The Dormouse {^Myoxjis avellanaritis'X in Yorkshire. Field, April 5th, p. 488. 

 Comprehensive and lengthy summary of Yorkshire information, showing 

 that it is very widely though sparingly distributed throughout the county. 



Naturalist, 



