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or detail accompanying the list, and the subject evidently was not 
to the author the labour of love, which everything connected 
with the ornithology of his district undoubtedly was. 
The Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northum- 
berland, Durham, and Newcastle-on-Tyne, only yield us one 
excellent description and figure of a whale, from the pen and 
pencil of Dr. Johnston of Berwick. 
In the Proceedings of the Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club, is to 
be found scarcely anything, except the Fauna of Twizell already 
alluded to, the remaining notices of Mammalia referring to Ber- 
wickshire and districts beyond our borders. 
Our own Transactions, in like manner, yield us only detached 
and scattered memoranda, of which we have made all the use we 
have been able. 
The old Chroniclers and Itinerants, whose works include, 
though they are not limited to, our district, have been carefully 
searched, and everything bearing upon our subject that could 
be gleaned from the charming pages of Holingshed, Leland, 
Baker, &c., has been transferred to ours. 
As far as the materials in our own library and that of the 
Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle, enable us to 
judge, the Mammalian Fauna of most English counties has been 
scarcely less neglected than our own. 
The Greenwich Natural History Club have published a list of 
the Mammalia of their district, containing 30 wild species and 
9 domestic, 39 in all ; one of these is doubtfully recorded, and 
three are whales, instances of whose occurrence are not recorded 
in the present century. ; 
A much more satisfactory, and indeed very excellent list of 
Mammalia, is contained in Garner’s Natural History of Stafford- 
shire (1844). It contains 29 wild species, or 37 in all; but, 
from its exclusively inland character, it is deprived of the marine 
species, which for purposes of comparison should be omitted from 
other lists. 
Another very excellent local list occurs in ‘“‘ An attempt to 
ascertain the Fauna of Shropshire and North Wales,” by T. C. 
Eyton, in the Magazine of Zool. and Bot., II., 537. This dis- 
