4006 The Zoologist— Jdne, 1874. 



It was reviewed in the very first number of the ' Zoologist,' issued 

 in January, 1843. In this notice I express my opinion that "in 

 enumerating the animal productions of a country it is necessary 

 maturely to consider the claim of each to be admitted into the 

 list;" and again, after alluding to extinct species, or species 

 extinct as British, I proceed, "A third question touches the dog, 

 the ox, the sheep, the goat, the horse, the ass, and those numerous 

 other useful animals that have accompanied man in all his enter- 

 prises, and settled round him whether he has pitched his tent in 

 the city or the desert, these must be rejected because they exist not 

 in a state of nature ; they are preserved by man's especial care, 

 and without that care they must inevitably perish even by the 

 hands of man himself." — Zool. 8 (1843). These were supposed 

 to be strange doctrines, daring and almost impious doctrines, they 

 were stigmatized as " crude," "juvenile," " ignorant," " untenable," 

 and so forth, for " had not Mr. Bell included thera all ? and the 

 pig and guinea-pig with them ?" and the objector " would like to 

 know whether Mr. Bell or Mr. Newman was likely to know best." 



Thirty years after this Mr. Bell writes thus, in the Preface to his 

 Second Edition : — " It has been thought best to omit entirely the 

 chapters on the domestic animals which were given in the first 

 edition, because these species cannot be properly regarded as 

 members of our Fauna." And so they are dropped out of the work. 

 This is as it should be ; but Mr. Bell cannot thus remove the 

 injury which his injudicious and over zealous friends at that 

 time inflicted on the 'Zoologist,' for expressing opinions sound 

 and truthful at the time, and now accepted as sound and truthful 

 by himself and all men. 



I introduce this subject, because this Second Edition cannot be 

 regarded as a new work, but must be considered solely in reference 

 to the first, and the points in which it is amended or altered have 

 alone to be detailed here; these emendations are numerous and im- 

 portant, and may be ranged principally under the heads, omissions 

 and additions: the omissions are most numerous. Three bats: — 

 the pygmy bat {VespertUio jyygnKBUs), because the specimen de- 

 scribed under that name was a young pipistrelle ; the notch-eared 

 haX {Vesper tilio emaryinatus), an untenable species, as incontestibly 

 shown by Mr. Tomes, at p. 4938 of the ' Zoologist' for 1856, to be 

 a nonentity ; and the lesser long-eared bat {Plecotus brevivianns), 

 because it is the young of the common long-eared bat; the oared 



