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date. In ‘Paget’s Natural History of Great Yarmouth’ (1834), 
the author says “ this species is occasionally seen in small woods, &c.” 
In 1838 appeared in the ‘Edinburgh Journal of Natural Histoiy,’ 
conducted by William IMacgillivray (vol. i. 1835—1839), an article 
entitled a ‘ Sketch of the Natural History of the neighbourhood of 
Norwich, by J. M [acgillivray], in which the Dormouse is spoken 
of as one of “ the less common quadrupeds ” met with at Cossey. I 
have also, from several other sources, been informed that “ forty or 
fifty years ago ” the Dormouse was found in Norfolk. On the other 
hand, Mr. Lubbock (1845) distinctly states that he could not verify 
its occurrence, and admits the species on the authority of Paget’s 
list. Mr. Gurney has been equally unsuccessful in establishing its 
claim ; and although I have made constant inquiries for the last 
twenty yoais, and liavo more than once been told of the occurrence 
of the Dormouse, I have found either that some other sjiecies was 
mistaken for it, or that the statement could not be substantiated. 
Under these circumstances, I reluctantly formed the conclusion 
that this interesting species had become extinct in this county, 
notwithstanding there were suitable localities in abundance for its 
home. 
(^lite recently there has been a correspondence in the ‘ Fiekl ’ 
on the distribution of the Dormouse in England, and I was surprised 
in reply to some remarks of mine, at receiving a letter from 
Mrs. Bazett Haggard, of Kirby Cane Hall, informing me that in 
hebruary, lt>82, she had seen a Dormouse in the parish of 
Geldestone, which some woodmen had just found in a dormant state 
in some dead leaves amongst the stumps of Hazel. Subsequent 
inquiry has shown that this species is met with in the parishes of 
Gillingham, Geldestone, and Stockton, all situated in the south-east 
corner of Norfolk. It does not occur on the opposite side of the 
river M aveney, on which the villages mentioned are situated ) and 
Mr. Eope tells me that, in the adjoining county of Suffolk, he can 
only hear of it with certainty in the neighbourhood of Long lilelford 
and Lavenham, near the borders of Essex, in which latter°county it 
seems to be foirly abundant. 
From .Air. W. M. Crowfoot, of Beccles, I learn that about 
forty years ago the late Air. J. Kenick turned off six or seven 
Dormice procured from Surrey, but he adds that the animal is now 
so common at Geldestone, that his informant doubts whether they 
