NOTES ON SOME OF OUR BRITISH MAMMALS. 7; 
the south. The other British species, the Lesser Horse- 
shoe Bat (Rhinolophus hipposideyos) is not uncommon in the 
limestone district of Derbyshire, and Mr. Brown has recorded 
the receipt of many specimens from the mines and caves of 
Matlock. 
We now come to the typical Bats, and find the Long- 
eared Bat (Plecotus auritus), the Noctule or Great Bat 
(Vesperugo noctula), and the Pipistrelle (Vesperugo pipistrellus), 
common near Burton, the Pipistrelle being by far the most 
abundant of all our bats. 
Two other species of bats are recorded for the district by 
Mr. Edwin Brown: Daubenton’s Bat (Vespertilio Daubentont), 
from Matlock, and the Reddish Grey Bat (Vespertilio Nattereri). 
Of the latter it is written that ‘“‘a single specimen was cap- 
tured in the roof of Stapenhill House some years ago, and 
is now in the Burton Museum.”* This was in 1863. 
Of the Insectivorva, the Hedgehog, Mole, Common Shrew, 
and Water Shrew, are all found in the neighbourhood. The 
tiny Lesser Shrew (Sovex minutus), smallest of British Mam- 
mals, has, so far as I can learn, not yet been noticed in 
the district. 
The Hedgehog (Evinaceus ewropeus) is a remarkably inter- 
esting animal, not merely because of the legends with which 
it is associated, though they are curious enough, but because 
of its strong personality. In our own district the hedgehog 
has two powerful enemies in the fox and the badger, which 
exhibit as much skill as a trained terrier in seizing the 
hedgehog so as to avoid being wounded by his spines. The 
fox is even credited with sometimes rolling the hedgehog 
into a pool of water, and thus compelling the poor urchin 
to open himself. 
In October, 1896, a friend and myself were walking from 
Burton to Ticknall when, on a footpath in a field, we came 
across the skin of a hedgehog which had been cleaned out 
*Now Sir Oswald Mosley's Museum, at Rollestone. 
