82 MAMMALIA. 



NOTES on MAMMALS which have been said to occur in the 

 ENGLISH CRAGS. 



Messrs. R. and A. Bell (Proc. Geol. Assoc., Vol. II., p. 212, 

 1872) have included in their list of Upper Crag Mammals Felis 

 catus and Arvicola campestris, but I have not been able to corro- 

 borate the occurrence of either of these species. The first-named, 

 F. catus, seems to have been given on the authority of 

 Mr. J . Gunn ; but there was some error as to the age of the 

 specimens. The same authors have also given in their Middle 

 Crag list ; Vespertilio sp., Sus arvernensis, Ziphius declivus, and 

 Z. undatus. The last two were Sir R. Owen's MS. names, 

 and they do not occur in his Monograph of the Red Crag 

 Cetacea (Pal. Soc., 1870), they must therefore be expunged. 

 The specimens referred to as Sus arvernensis are probably those 

 which are called S. palceochcerus. I can get no clue to anything 

 from the Red Crag which could be called Vespertilio, and am 

 obliged to conclude that it was erroneously inserted. 



Prof. Owen (Brit. Foss. Mamm., p. Ill) thus speaks of a 

 specimen said to have been found in the Red Crag of Newbourn, 

 Suffolk: "A fossil skull of a Badger in the Museum of the 

 Philosophical Institution at York," which " Prof. Phillips 

 assures me has the same mineralised condition and general 

 appearance which characterise the ordinary recognised fossils of 

 that miocene [pliocene] formation." 



I find on inquiry that this skull has since been rejected from 

 the York Museum, on account of its not having really come from 

 the Crag ; and consequently Meles taxus can no longer be retained 

 as a Crag species. 



Although Mr. R. Lydekker has referred (Cat. Foss. Mamm. 

 Brit. Mus., part v., p. 62, ] 887) to two vertebras from the Red 

 Crag of Suffolk, as being very like those of Kogia ; he has not 

 felt satisfied that they really represent that genus. 



