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extremely common in Cambridgeshire, but more likely the V. 

 mystacinus, which he has not included in his list, and which though 

 rare in Cambridgeshire, seems to be of frequent occurrence in Bath, 

 many individuals having been brought to me captured in shops and 

 houses. The genus Bhinoiophus, containing the two horse-shoe bats, 

 is unknown in Cambridgeshire. The Great Horse-shoe is met with 

 in some other of the eastern and south-eastern counties ; but the 

 Lesser Horse-Shoe seems to be confined to the West. Both species 

 I believe occur in the hollows of Hampton Rocks, and some other 

 places. 



The Black Rat, no doubt formerly plentiful in the old city of 

 Bath, must be very rare now if not extinct ; the brown Norway rat, 

 a more powerful animal, having, as in so many other towns, taken 

 its place. The Oared Shrew, Sorex remijh-, I consider as only a 

 variety of aS^. fodiens. 



The Badger and Otter seem to be more frequent about Bath than 

 in Cambridgeshire, where both animals have become very rare. 



The bird fauna in Mr. Terry's list numbers 159 species ; many 

 more probably occur as occasional visitants, if not constant resi- 

 dents. As some species in their flights range over a wide extent of 

 country, and are much less locally fixed than other animals ; no 

 result of any value can be got by comparing the eastern and 

 western counties in this class with reference to Mr. Terry's list 

 alone. It will be better here to take for our standard of comparison 

 Smith's Birds of Somerset,* which enables us to set county against 

 county. The number of birds in Cambridgeshire, when I left that 

 part of England, amounted to 225 species ; of these 105 were laud 

 birds and 120 aquatic. The number found in Somerset, according 

 to Smith, is 215 species, 115 beiug land birds and 100 aquatic. 

 Thus it appears there is no very marked difference between the 

 two counties in this respect ; east and west fare much alike, 

 proximity to the Bristol Channel, Glastonbury and Shapwick Moors, 

 and other moors in the county of i?omerset, attracting many water 

 bii'ds, and proving an equivalent to the fens of Cambridgeshire. 

 The parallel is equally exact, or very nearly so, if we take tlie orders 



* Cecil Smith. " The Birds of Somersetshire," 1869. 



