MAMMALIA. 5 



Fam. SORICIDJE. 



i8. Sorex tetragonurus Herman. Common Shrew. 



Generally distributed, abundant. Ascends to 1300 feet 



19. Sorex minutus Z. Lesser Shrew. 



Reported from widely separated localities, and probably not 

 uncommon, but is seldom distinguished from the Common 

 Shrew. 



2c. Crossopus fodiens {Pallas). Water Shrew. 



Generally distributed but not very numerous ; commoner in 

 some districts than others. 



Order CARNIVORA. 



Sub-order FISSIPEDIA. 



Section JELUROIDEA. 



Fam. FELID^. 



21. Fells catus L. Wild Cat. 



Extinct, the Hambleton Hills having been its final refuge in 

 Yorkshire. The last specimen there was trapped by my 

 friend Mr. John Harrison, on his farm at Murton, near 

 Hawnby, in the winter, about 1840. Other testimony con- 

 firms the opinion that the Hambleton Hills were the wild 

 cat's latest haunt. There is no proof that it ever inhabited 

 the Fells of the north-west, though in all probability it 

 once existed there. The evidence of its former existence 

 in South Yorkshire is confined to entries in the church- 

 wardens' accounts at Ecclesfield, of sums paid in 1589 and 

 1626 for the destruction of 'wylde catts'; and to a legend 

 of doubtful origin, of an encounter — fatal to both — between 

 a wild cat and a man of the family of Cresacre, at Barn- 

 borough. 



Section CYNOIDEA. 



Fam. CANID^. 



Cams Iitpus L. Mo If. 



Extinct, formerly abundant. There is conclusive evidence 

 of various kinds to show, not only that this animal 

 occurred, but that in former times it was abundant in the 



