DR. EMBLETON ON THE TWO SPECIES OF RAT, ETC. 103 



that are so very corruptly written will inevitably be modified 

 and corrected. 



In Northumberland, from whence we have wandered too far, 

 the only names that I can recollect as referable to this element, 

 are Wooler (anciently Wolover, Wolowre, WoUore), and Lucker 

 or Luckor, which I doubt not to be the place from which one 

 Nich. De Leuknor, often mentioned in the Pipe-roll of Northum- 

 berland, received his title. It is obvious that in cases where the 

 spelling is not definitely fixed, the forms in or, or ore (the dative 

 case,) are preferable to that in er, though the latter cannot be re- 

 garded as corrupt. It is less eligible, however, because less 

 distinct, and more likely to be overlooked or misunderstood. 



Scar ; in Old-Norse sker, a rock in the sea. Allied to this, 

 probably, is our English adjective sheer: " Abrupt and sheer the 

 mountains sink." Mr. Brockett well defines a scar to mean, " a 

 bare and broken rock on the side of a mountain, or on the high 

 bank of a river." I may add that many of the dangerous marine 

 rocks on our coast are denominated scars, after the true Old-Norse 

 usao-e. This word in its full form does not enter into close com- 

 position. But, if I mistake not, car, a word at first sight 

 different, is merely the softened form of sca7% when used as part 

 of a compound name, and constituting an unaccented or feeblo 

 syllable, as in Bondycar, Redcar. 



III. — On the two Species of Bat in England. By Dennis 

 Embleton, Esq., M.D. 



[Read, Thursday, April 4th, 1850.] 



The number of our strictly British Mammals is small. Fleming, 

 in his History of British Animals, 1827, could only sum up about 

 fifty species, exclusive of those that have been domesticated, 

 naturalized, and extirpated. Jenyns, m his Manual of British 



