The number of well-ascertained recent Scottish Mammals re- 

 cognized in the following pages is fifty-one, the proportions of the 

 different orders, as compared with the faunas of England and Ireland, 

 being shown in the following Table : — * 



The fifteen English species not hitherto recorded as having 



occurred north of the Tweed are the followinor: — 



1. Rhinolophus hipposideros. 



2. Rh. ferrum-equinum. 



3. Vesper iif jo serotinus. 



4. V. noctula. 



5. V. lelslerl. 



6. Vespertilio nattereri. 



7. V. bechsteini. 



8. V. mystacinus. 



9. Synotus barbastettus. 



10. Phoca hispida. 



11. Balaenoptera tat/reps. 



12. Grampus griseus. 



13. Delphinus delphis. 



14. D. albirostris. 



15. Muscardinus avellanarius. 



The six Scottish species not yet included in the English fauna 



are- 



1. Trichechu8 rosmarus. 



2. Ziphius cavlrostris. 



3. Mesoplodon bidens. 



4. Delphinapterns leucas. 



5. Delphinus acutus. 



6. Lepus variabilis. 



The, four species found in Ireland, but not in Scotland, are all 

 Bats, namely — 



1. Rhinolophus hipposideros. 



2. Vesperurjo leisleri. 



3. Vespertilio nattereri. 



4. V. myslacinus. 



* Tn these Tables I have rejected several species of so-called British Bats and Cetaceans as 

 not being well ascertained. Cf. Bell's British Quadrupeds, 2nd ed. (1874). 



