Wotes on some of our British Mammals, 
witb special reference to those found 
near Burtonzon-eTrent. 
By G. H. Storer, F.Z.S. 
Read before the Society, January 20th, 1899. 
[ABSTRACT. | 
F the forty-six species of wild beasts which have 
undoubtedly occurred within the confines of our 
islands, some of these, such as the Wolf, Brown Bear, 
Beaver, and Wild Boar, have long ago been exterminated 
by human agency, whilst the Wild Cat, the elegant and 
sprightly Pine-Marten, and, in many districts, the Badger, 
Otter, and Polecat, yearly become more scarce, and must 
eventually share the same fate. Of the remainder, the 
Game Beasts and Wild Cattle are preserved in parks 
and enclosures—sometimes to meet their fate at the hands 
of those who have previously been so solicitous for their 
careful protection; whilst the majority exist on sufferance 
chiefly because they are too small or too prolific to be 
readily affected by man’s encroachments upon them. 
Owing no doubt chiefly to the wild country which once 
