NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. 1835 
dens of the Zoological Society in London. They live in holes 
in the limestone in the dene.” 
Of one caught at Hedley Wood, near Weldon Bridge, the 
Rey. John F. Bigge writes that ‘the keeper having scen its 
track, placed a trap at the mouth of the hole in which it took 
refuge, and for three weeks the animal never stirred out. At 
the end of this time the keeper took the trap one evening to the 
blacksmith’s to be repaired, and in the morning it was found 
that the badger had issued forth and made its escape, and it 
was not caught until some weeks afterwards. When taken it 
was very quiet, and in a few days became perfectly tame.” 
The Rev. Wm. T. Shields, of Warden, writes, ‘‘ Badgers are 
now almost extinct here. ‘There were some in Aydon Dene ten 
years ago, but having taken possession of the fox breeding 
earths, they were trapped—four were captured. Mr. W. Lang- 
home tells me he saw one at Haydon Fell about two years ago.’ 
Localities —Northumberland: ‘Hedley Wood, on the Coquet 
near Weldon Bridge; Baty’s Crag, near Cocklaw; Birkey Dene, 
near Aydon, Corbridge; Hareshaw Linn, Woodburn; Brock- 
hill, Stamfordham; Long Nursery, Gilchesters, Dissington ; 
Bewick, on Breamish”’— Rev. J. F. Bigge. Durham: “St. 
John’s, Weardale”’— William Backhouse. ‘Castle Eden Dene”— 
Rev. H. B. Tristram. “ Banks of the Wear near Lumley; 
Softley Wood, Knarsdale”—R. Howse. 
Trizsz 3. PINNIGRADA. Owen. 
PINNIPEDIA. Jilig, Bonap. 
AMPHIBIA or FERZ AMPHIBLE. Cuvier. 
Famity 1. PHOCIDZE. De Selys Longch. 
1, CALLOCEPHALUS, Fred. Cuvier. 
PHOCA. Linn. (In part.) 
1. C. virvtinus. Fr. Cuvier. Common Seat, Sea Doe, Sea Carr. 
C. vitulinus, Gray (Cat. Seals, 21). Phoca vitulina, Linn. 
The Sea Calf or Seal is not uncommon along our coast although 
its numbers have been greatly reduced during the past ten years, 
Of the largest colony—at the mouth of the Tees—Mr. John 
