MAMMALS 



tiquity. Between 1800 and 1835 the herd 

 became reduced by an accident when fourteen 

 died from eating dead branches of yew cut 

 from trees near the hall. The survivors, 

 showing no tendency to breed, were killed 

 off ' (Whitaker, Deer Parks, etc.). 



Wild cattle also existed in Annesley Park, 

 as the following extract from a letter from 

 Lord Chaworth to the Countess of Rutland 

 shows (the letter is dated 'Annesley, 4 August, 



1669 ') : ' I have made boulde to present your 

 Ladyship a small taste off a White wild Oxe 

 frome my Parke, killed by my owne hand. 

 I had not presumed so much but that I have 

 heard my Lord off Rutland saye they were 

 originally his att Beskewood Park from 

 whence I had that breed' (Whitaker, Deer 

 Parks, etc.). 



Remains of wild cattle occur in the Cres- 

 well cave deposits.] 



CETACEA 



3 1 . Porpoise. Phocaena phocaena, Linn. 



Bell Pkoccena communis. 



Occurs very frequently in the tidal portion 

 of the Trent and occasionally ascends the 

 river to a much higher point. Mr. T. M. 

 Blagg of Newark writes to me : ' It is no in- 

 frequent event for a small school to come up 

 the Trent as high as Collingham, and I must 

 have heard of their being seen on some half- 

 dozen occasions at least during the past ten 

 or twelve years. The most noteworthy in- 

 stance, however, was in 1880 when, the river 

 being in flood, a school of five crossed the 



weir in the canal just below Newark, and 

 coming up past the town, were hunted with 

 guns and boats in the mill-tail, one being 

 actually captured in the locks.' 



A specimen which measured 4 ft. 6 inches 

 in length was shot in the Trent at Kelham 

 near Newark on 26 March, 1903, and was 

 exhibited for some days in a fish shop in 

 Newark. The Newark Herald of 28 March, 

 in recording the event, stated that five or six 

 were killed in the Trent near Collingham 

 about five years ago. 



ADDENDA 



3. Long-eared Bat. Plecotus auritus, Linn. 



Specimens have occurred recently in the 

 Worksop and Retford districts, and about 

 Nottingham and Eastwood. 

 5. Pipistrelle. Pipistrellus pipistrellus, Schreb. 



Common everywhere in the Worksop 

 district (J. T. Houghton). 

 10. Water Shrew. Neomys fodiens, Pallas. 



Seen in the stream in Shireoaks Park near 

 Worksop, 2 July, 1904, by Rev. A. Thornley. 

 I Off. Pigmy Shrew. Sorex minutus, Linn. 



In the Zoologist for May, 1904, Mr. J. 

 Whitaker records a specimen captured at 

 Rainworth Lodge near Mansfield during the 

 previous month. It was brought into the 

 house by a cat, and had doubtless been 

 captured in the grounds of the Lodge or in 

 its immediate vicinity. 



1 6. Badger. Meles mcles, Linn. 



Two killed in Nottinghamshire by the 

 Earl of Harrington's hounds in September, 

 1904 : one in Edwalton Top Cover, the 

 other in Epperstone Park. Has been seen 

 recently at Shireoaks and elsewhere near 

 Worksop ; while not long ago a litter of 

 young badgers was found at Gringley-on-the- 

 Hill. 



17. Otter. Lutra /utra, Linn. 



On 3 March, 1905, a very fine example 

 was shot in the canal at Hickling. It 

 measured 47 in. from nose to end of tail, the 

 tail itself being 19 in. long. Now in the 

 local collection in the Nottingham Natural 

 History Museum. Mr. J. T. Houghton re- 

 ports two recent occurrences in the Worksop 

 district. 



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