OTTERS AND BADGERS.
The Animal Welfare Society of London University is still seeking particular information about two animals, the otter and the badger. Both are harried in certain neighbourhoods ; but my own experience is that in several districts both animals are on the increase. Otters are to be found quite close to London—on the Wey and on the Lea, where they have reappeared lately. In the extreme west, in Pembroke- shire, for example, the badger is a very common animal, but it has, to our loss, been virtually exterminated in some hunts and on most game preserves where a keeper, so called; is in being. On the subject of our rarer mammals, I heard this week of the presence of a polecat on the very edge of Liverpool, as well as a great number in Cardigan. What of the pine marten, whose stuffed form decorates many a case in
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