MAMMALIA. 5 
Fam. SORICIDA. 
18. Sorex tetragonurus Herman. Common Shrew. 
Generally distributed, abundant. Ascends to 1300 feet. 
r9. Sorex minutus Z. Lesser Shrew. 
Reported from widely separated localities, and probably not 
uncommon, but is seldom distinguished from the Common 
Shrew. 
2c. Crossopus fodiens (Pad/as). Water Shrew. 
Generally distributed but not very numerous ; commoner in 
some districts than others. 
Order CARNIVORA. 
Sub-order FISSIPEDIA. 
Section AZSLUROIDEA. 
Fam. FELIDZ, 
21. Felis catus Z. Wild Cat. 
Extinct, the Hambleton Hills having been its final refuge in 
Yorkshire. The last specimen there was trapped by my 
friend Mr. John Harrison, on his farm at Murton, near 
Hawnby, in the winter, about 1840. Other testimony con- 
firms the opinion that the Hambleton Hills were the wild 
cat’s latest haunt. There is no proof that it ever inhabited 
the Fells of the north-west, though in all probability it 
once existed there. The evidence of its former existence 
in South Yorkshire is confined to entries in the church- 
wardens’ accounts at Ecclesfield, of sums paid in 1589 and 
1626 for the destruction of ‘wylde catts’; and to a legend 
of doubtful origin, of an encounter—fatal to both—between 
a wild cat and a man of the family of Cresacre, at Barn- 
borough. ' 
Section CYNOIDEA. 
Fam. CANIDA. 
Canis lupus Z. Wolf. 
Extinct, formerly abundant. There is conclusive evidence 
of various kinds to show, not only that this animal 
occurred, but that in former times it was abundant in the 
