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reach this country. It was a common saying that when porpoises 

 swam to windward, foul weather would ensue within twelve hours. 

 In an old comedy by Ravenscroft, entitled Canterbury Guests ; 

 or, A Bargain Broken, we read, " My heart begins to leap and play 

 like a poi-pice before a storm." 



Mrs. Merrifield mentioned inher " Natural History of Brighton " 

 that, about the year 1833 or 183-1!, a large whale, 70 feet in length, 

 was stranded near the Roedean Gate. On the 13th November, 1865, 

 a whale (the subject of Mr. Cooke's picture) was washed ashore 

 at Pevensey. The Brlgldon Herald recorded that on the 15th Sep- 

 tember, 1848, " a shoal of whales, seven or eight in number, was 

 seen off Brighton, one or two miles oif in the dii'ection of Shoreham. 

 Probably bottled-nosed whales." 



In an interesting paper by Wm. Borrer, Esq., F.L.S., in the 

 Zoologist for September, 1874, five bats, not mentioned in Dr. 

 Mantell's list, were mentioned as found in Sussex. The Bai'bastelle 

 fBarbastellus DaubentoniiJ , which Mr. Borrer had taken under the 

 the thatch of summerhouses at Henfield. Natterer's Bat fVesjyertilio 

 NattereriJ, of which twelve wei-e found on the 29th June, 1848, on 

 taking off the ridge tiles off a roof at Cowfold, and on Dec. 4th of 

 the same year one was taken from the I'oof of Cowfold Church. Mr. 

 Borrer stated that Daubenton's Bat {V. Daubentonii) had been 

 taken at Preston, near Brighton. A specimen of the Whiskered 

 Bat (F. mystacimts) was found on the 5th November, 1848, by Mr. 

 Borrer's servant, in his coal cellar, being suspended by the thumbs 

 and not by the hinder feet, Late in June, 1845, one of these bats 

 flew against a man's white smock frock in the day time, at Lindfield. 

 The Noctula Bat (F. Noctnla) was shot by Mr. Borrer at Henfield, 

 on 26th September, 1841. 



They might thei"efore suuimarise the mammals thus — 19 men- 

 tioned by Dr. Mantell, to which must be added the water shrew, 

 stoat, field and meadow voles, and wild cat, and the five species of 

 bats referred to by Mr. Borrer, making a total of 29 land mam- 

 mals, and of mai'ine mammals ther-e were the porpoise and the 

 whales which had been stranded, the species of which he did not 

 know. No doubt the wolf and wild boar were at one time found in 

 this county, but the foruier was long since exterminated and the 

 latter became extinct some time after. He might mention, before 



