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7. Sorex MINUTUS, Linnaeus. 



Lesser Shrew. 



Has been generally confounded with the last species, and 

 appears to be generally less numerous. J. Macgillivray, who first 

 recorded it as a Scottish animal under Jenyns' name of S. rusticus, 

 considered it to be as abundant as the Common Shrew near 

 Aberdeen (Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., viii., p. 23), and the Rev. 

 G. Gordon tells me that specimens which he sent to Mr. Jenyns 

 from Morayshire were identified by that gentleman with the same 

 species. In the south-west it is not rare in the Upper Ward of 

 Lanarkshire (Alston, Fauna W. Scotl., p. v.). Mr. Harvie-Brown 

 has recently sent me an example of the Shrew of the Outer 

 Hebrides, caught by him this summer in South Uist, and I was 

 much interested in finding that it belonged to this species, the only 

 one yet positively known to occur in Ireland. 



8. Ckossopus fodiens (Pallas). 



Water Shrew. 



Gael., Famh-uisge (lit., water-mole). 



Both the white-throated form and the dark race, formerly 

 separated as C. remifer (Geoffroy), are widely but locally distributed 

 throughout the mainland, and intermediate varieties constantly 

 occur. The species was first added to the Scottish fauna by the 

 late Dr. Scoular, who took specimens near Glasgow (Mag. Nat. 

 Hist., vi., p. 512), and it has since been found as far north as 

 Sutherlandshire, where it is not uncommon. Baikie and Heddle 

 state that one was killed in Waas, Orkney (Hist. Nat. Ore, 

 p. 14), and it is not rare in Arran, but I have been unable to 

 ascertain its existence in any of the other Islands. 



Order III.: CARNIVORA. 

 Family: FELIDAE. 



9. Felis catus, Linnaeus. 



Wild Cat. 



Gael., Cat-fhiadhaich (lit., wild cat), Braiene. 



Once generally distributed over the mainland, the Wild Cat has 

 been totally extirpated in the Lowlands and in many parts of the 

 Highlands. It is still to be found, however, in the wilder districts 

 of most of the northern counties, especially in the deer-forests, 



