4 Coward, Sonic No/cs on tJic Mavnuah of Luudy. 



a Lesser — a large adult female, measuring in head and 

 body 55mm., and tail 41mm. ; but I have particulars of 

 two other shrews from Lundy. 



Mr. A. J. R. Roberts, in 1887, obtained one, which he 

 thought was a Common Shrew, Sorcx arancus, Linn., but 

 which he says measured from tip of snout to root of tail 

 from 1 14 to 2 inches ; this specimen was never examined 

 by a competent authority, but it was, judging by its size, 

 either a Lesser or an immature Common Shrew. More 

 recentl}' Mr. Norman H. Joy sent a Lund}- Shrew to the 

 British Museum where it was examined and identified as 

 Sorcx niiuiitus. We thus know that the Lesser Shrew does 

 occur but have no satisfactory evidence that the Common 

 Shrew is found on Lundy. 



If it was true in 1877 that no Mice occur on i^undy it 

 is not true to-day; the House Mouse, Mns ninscnlns, Linn., 

 has found its way there and is an inhabitant of the 

 houses. We captured one in a disused farm enclosure. 

 Mr. Joy, in a letter to the British Museum, which I have 

 seen, says " There is also a }'ellow Mouse which is taken 

 under hay," but he spoke from report only and had not 

 seen an example. He suggests the Wood Mouse or Harvest 

 Mouse. It is possible that ]\Ins sylvciticiis, Linn., does 

 occur, but it is remarkable, if this is so, that we did not 

 capture any in our traps, for the Wood Mouse is one of 

 the easiest mammals to trap. We found neither the Field 

 nor Bank Vole. 



The Brown Rat, Mns norvcgicns, Erxl, has not 

 apparently succeeded in exterminating the Black Rat, 

 AIns rattns, Linn., for both occur on the island. It has 

 been suggested to me that the Black Rat may have been 

 exterminated more than once and re-introduced from 

 some of the many wrecks. Before the Trinity House 

 alterations, when the one lighthouse standing in a high 



