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bibliography: mammalia, 1885. 



John Cordeaux. Northumberland. 

 Place Names in Coquetdale having reference to Animals [includes extracts 

 from Rothbury Church Registers, 1677 — for killing Foxes {Vulpes vulgaris)]. 

 Field, October 24th, 1885, p. 607. 



W. H. Flower. Yorkshire, Lincolnshire. 



On a specimen of a Whale (Rudolphi's Rorqual (Balcenoptera borealis Lesson, 

 Sibbaldius laticeps Gray) lately taken in the river Crouch, Essex [refers in 

 postscript to the example of the same species taken near Goole, and now in 

 the British Museum]. Trans. Essex Field Club, June 1885, iv, m-115. 



W. Gain. Notts. 

 Rats [(Mus decumanus) instances of ferocity at Tuxford]. Nat. World, June 

 1885, p. 120. 



H. Wallis Kew. Lincolnshire. 

 Louth Naturalists' Society. [Hedgehog (Erinaceus europceus) noted May 25th 

 in Muckton, Burwell, and Haugham Woods.] Nat. World, August 1885, 

 p- 154. 



Thomas Lister. Yorkshire. 

 The Vertebrate Animals of the Mammalian Families in the Barnsley District 



[A list, with notes, of 25 species known for the district, and mentioning 

 5 species of extinct mammals]. Quart. Trans. Barnsley Nat. Soc, 1884, iv, 

 17-18. 



R. Lofthouse. Durham, Yorkshire. 



Notes, from the Tees [young female Seal {Phoca vitulina) caught — and another 

 seen — near Eston Jetty, October 25th.]. Field, October 31st, 1885, P- 640. 



H. A. Macpherson. Cumberland. 

 Dormouse [Muscardinus avellanarius] in Cumberland [citing several additional 

 instances, old and new]. Zool., July 1885, p. 257. 



T. H. Miller. Lancashire. 

 A White Weasel [{Mustela vulgaris) shot ' last week ' at Singleton Park, 

 Poulton-le-Fylde]. Field, October 31st, 1885, p. 640. 



Chas. T. Musson. Notts., Lincolnshire. 



Carnivorous Water Voles [{Arvicola amphibia) preying upon bivalve shells, at 

 Nottingham, Sutton-in-Ashfield, and Lincoln]. Sci. Goss., March 1885, p. 69. 



J. Parker. 



Strength of the Mole [( Talpa europcea) ; in the writer's house cellar the tiles 

 were thrown up in one corner and by the side was a mound of earth. A trap 

 was set and a mole of extraordinary size caught]. Field, December 6, 1884, 

 p. 771. 



George Roberts. Yorkshire, Lincolnshire. 



Topography and Natural History of Lofthouse and its neighbourhood [etc.], 

 vol. ii. Leeds: printed for the author. 1885 [pp. viii + 258], 



Remarks on the quadrupeds (p. 14) ; list of 29 species with details concern- 

 ing 8 of them (pp. 16-18); churchwarden's accounts (pp. 18-19); Otters — 

 Lutra vulgaris (p. 94); Badger — Meles iaxus (p. 96); Bats (p. 100); Water 

 Rats — Arvicola amphibia (p. 101); Shrew — Sorexremifer (p. i'oi); Fox — Vulpes 

 vulgaris (p. 104); Fin-whale at Grimsby (p. no); Shrew (p. 131); Water 

 Shrew — Crossopus fodiens (p. 132); Rat — Mus decumanus (p. 138); Short- 

 tailed Vole — Arvicola agrestis (p. 149); Stoat (p. 150); Badger (p. 159); 

 Mole (p. 161); Seal (p. 161); Oared Shrew (p. 161); Water Voles and Water 

 Shrews (p. 174); Squirrel (p. 176-178); Deer (p. 176). 



William Denison Roebuck. Yorkshire. 

 The Greater Horse-shoe Bat not a Yorkshire species. [The Carperby specimen 

 recorded as this being a Noctule {Vesperugo noctula)\ Zool., January 1885, 



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