252 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
OrDER CETACEA. 
Two portions of the mandible of a huge Cetacean, resembling, 
if not identical with, the existing Greenland “ Right” Whale, 
Balena mysticetus, Linn., were found during the excavations for 
the Abbey Park in 1881, and forwarded to me. Mr. T. Griffiths, 
C.E., who was at the finding of the largest (or condylic) por- 
tion, described it as resting upon the post-tertiary gravels, 
at a depth of ten feet, under apparently undisturbed soil; and 
from what Davis and Gunn write as to the “ Chillesford”’ and 
“forest” beds, it was at first supposed that we might possibly 
discover in Leicestershire a formation somewhat analogous to 
those; but on referring the matter to Mr. J. D. Paul, F.G.S., of 
Leicester, we decided to submit the bone and its history to 
Professor Flower, F.R.S. This was accordingly done, and 
Professor Flower subsequently wrote me that I was, no doubt, 
correct in my supposition as to the bones in question having 
been brought from a distance and used for posts, or similar 
purpose, at some remote period, and having afterwards become 
buried in the morass and gradually covered over with soil, &c., 
but that they showed no trace whatever of what might be called 
a fossil origin. Probably this is the true explanation, for at 
Knossington I saw, in 1883, the rami of the mandible of a large 
Whale, used as an entrance archway to a garden, and these were 
of considerable antiquity. 
The foregoing list gives a total of 40 species of mammals, 
exclusive of the Horse and Whale. Original notes are now 
invited with reference to the following :—Polecat, Pine Marten, 
Water Shrew, any Bats (excepting the Long-eared, Pipistrelle, 
and Noctule), Black Rat, Harvest Mouse, Red Field-Vole, 
Dormouse; also upon any extinct Ungulates, or upon varieties 
of any mammals inhabiting Leicestershire. 
ADDENDA. 
Page 215-216. I am now enabled to add another species of 
Bat (making the sixth now recorded) to the list of CurroprEra, 
viz.:—Vespertilio daubentonii, Kuhl. Daubenton’s Bat.— Rare. 
An adult female of this species (nine inches and three-quarters 
in expanse of wings) was brought to me, whilst still alive, 
on June 19th, 1885, having been knocked down with a stone 
(two or three evenings previously) whilst flying over water 
