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where a few years ago I could scarcely push my horse, — though a 

 railroad is coming from Yarmouth directly through the centre of the 

 Province, — yet there are places so utterly sterile, so impassable 

 by granite boulder and marshy swamp, as to defy any engineer ; so 

 barren as to tempt no one ; and here he will make his last hold. 

 He will remain unchanged ; and other men, in other garbs, with 

 other governments, will cover with their rifles his fawn colored 

 ears, or branching antlers. 



As the princes of Europe follow the urus at the present day in 

 the Black Forest of Germany, so too may an indigenous line of 

 native princes in those days to come, stalk their huge deer in the 

 heart of Queen's or Shelburne. 



As with the ruminantia the papers I have had the honor to read 

 before you, on the mammals of Nova Scotia, end, I have thought it 

 well to republish a list of the whole mammals. 



I think this list will include all, with the exception of a shrew? 

 or a mouse or two, yet to be added — I know of no other list except 

 my own, and in using the term identified by myself, I only wish to 

 add to it the interest of personal verification. I shall use the 

 classification of Dr. Baird (Smithsonian Institute), with the 

 synonyms of Sir John Richardson when procurable, thus using the 

 best American and English authorities, being satisfied that whilst 

 no one can be but charmed by the accuracy, exactness and minute 

 description of the great English traveller, on the other hand they 

 must equally acknowledge the exhaustive labor of the American 

 naturalist, though they may diflfer from him in some of his con- 

 clusions. 



Cheiroptera, — Bats. 



Yespertilio sithulatus, Say, Richardson, — Say's-bat. 

 Yespertilio cinereus, P. D. Beauvois, 1796, > tt -d . 



Vespertilio pruinosus, Richardson, J ^ 



Dr Allen, (Monograph American bats 1846,) puts this last species in 

 the new genus " Lasiurus." It is very rare in the Province, whilst Say's 

 bat is very common, Capt. Hardy gave me a bat whose interfemoral 

 resembled " evotis" (Allen). I am unwilling, however, to make it this 

 species. 



