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young. This was in the parish of Lyng. February 5th, 1877. 
Elsing. Mr. Love gave me a very large pied rat (killed on Satur- 
day), and he told me he had taken sixteen unborn rats from one old 
one. 
Water Yore ( Arvicola amphibius). 1878. I obtained a jet- 
black specimen at Dilham two or three years ago ; it was hardly 
full-grown, and had about three white hairs at the tip of the tail. 
1 have never noticed any other variety alive or in the flesh, except 
the very common rusty black ones. I have seen one other black 
one stuffed, and one or two albinos stuffed, but none of a grey 
colour. 
Field Vole ( Arvicola ngrestis). I caught a good many of this, 
and of the bank vole and common shrew — three or four of each — 
in three pit-falls, which I made larger at the bottom than at the 
top ; several long-tailed field-mice also were thus caught. At East 
Dereham, on the 30th of March, 187G, a gardener named Doy told 
me there used to bo “lots of” (i.e. many) pied (brown and white) 
short-tailed field-mice in the meadows near where Hy. Farrow lives, 
at Totwood common, East Dereham. 
Bank Vole (Arvioola pratensis). August 20th, 1874. On 
skinning a bank vole, which a cat had caught, I found in it five 
young ones. I bagged four bank voles during this month all in 
Sparham, and one more afterwards at the threshing of a bean stack 
in the next parish, Bawdeswell. I saw the remains of several 
other beasts which looked like bank voles, but they may have been 
field voles. I once caught a very red specimen of (bank ?) vole 
(some years ago) in my butterfly net, on the banks of the Black 
Water stream, on Wliitwell common. The two species (bank and 
field voles) are so much alike in colour and general appearance, 
especially the J s and young ones, that it is easy to mistake one for 
the other, and I have no idea which of the two is the rarest. 
Hare ( Lepus timidus). October 7th, 1876. When shooting at 
Bawdeswell with Mr. Stoughton, his groom (named Jay), who was 
beating, told us that when ho was with the late Rev. Henry Holley, 
shooting at Scottow with the late Sir Henry Durrant, Mr. Holley 
shot a very large hare, which Sir Henry gave him. Jay weighed 
it after it was livlkcd — eleven lbs. ! Mr. Holley saw it weighed. 
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