XVI. INTRODUCTORY. 



brightly in a clear sky, I saw a Bat fluttering 

 over the garden, evidently hawking for flies, 

 and going rather higher than its kind do in the 

 evening. Weasels and Stoats are common, and 

 also the House Mouse and Field Mouse, the 

 common Shrew, Water Shrew, Field Vole, Frog, 

 Toad, and Water Newt. In the river are to 

 be found Salmon, Sea-Trout, Brown Trout, Pike^ 

 Perch, Eels, and Minnows. 



