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think the pattern of runs varied in different nests. He said he 
had seen some cream-coloured moles which were taken near Bergh 
Apton, where one of his sons lives. 
March 4tla, 1876. I received by post two cream-coloured moles 
J and 5 , and the skin of another from Oby near Yarmouth. On 
the 6 th another 5 ; on the 13tli a J ; another J on the 18th. 
On the 1st of April, 1876, two more came to hand, all cream 
coloured, and all from Oby. I have had twelve from that place, 
and have been aware of the existence of a race of cream-coloured 
moles in the Oby marshes for many years. Mr. Wiseman of Oby 
tells me that a white mole and a black mole are sometimes caught 
in the same run. He does not remember seeing more than two 
spotted moles. Last year his men turned out several nests of black 
moles, but none of white moles, nor has Mr. Wiseman ever seen a 
nest of white moles ; they are all caught on the marshes. He says 
moles have their young in April. 
March 22nd, 1876. At Oulton I called on Thos. and Bobert 
Keeler (mole-catchers, related to the Swannington mole-catcher). 
They told me they catch a good many pied moles at Blickling, near 
the pond, but no white moles. I saw one of the skins which was 
of the usual dark colour but with a yellow spot about an inch in 
diameter on the underside of tire flank. They told me the pied 
moles had seldom more than one or two such spots. They say 
they have already caught thirty or more pied moles at Blickling ; 
and that moles usually have four or five young at a birth, and 
sometimes six, in the end of April. A shepherd in Sparham told 
me he once saw a mole-catcher in Norwich who showed him a lot 
of moles alive in a box, eight or nine of which were white, and 
were caught at Fundenhall near Tacolneston. Mr. Bayfield, the 
Hockering gamekeeper tells me, that a few years ago he saw at 
Bond ham a cream-coloured mole, and that his brother-in-law Amiss 
who is gamekeeper there, could send me specimens like it. I 
afterwards had the offer of two such moles killed at Roudham. 
The soil at Roudham (I am told) is light and sandy, with light 
peaty meadows. Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., told me of two white 
moles killed at Keswick. Mr. T. E. Gunn mentioned the receipt 
of four at once, from Stalham. A game-keeper at Hoveton told 
me white moles were caught at Halvergate marshes and Acle 
Bridge. At Scoulton I met a man who told me that at Methwold 
