CORNISH FAUNA 



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Tfie Species of which there are Specimens in the Museum are marked 



VERTEBRATE ANIMALS. 



MAMMIFEROUS ANIMALS, OR THOSE WHICH SUCKLE 

 THEIR YOUNG. 



BATS. — 'The Cornish name of these Animals is Ary or 

 Rerymouse, from Ihe Saxon word Areren, to raise, or be lifted 

 up, that is, to fly. 



Seventeen Species are enumerated as British ; and of these 

 it~is probable that nearly all may be found in Cornwall, al- 

 though the following Species are all that are as yet ascertained, 



GREAT BAT. Vespertilio Noctula. Jenyns 5 Manual, p. 

 23. A figure and History in Bell's British Quadrupeds, p. 

 12. Rare. 



* PIPISTRELLE. V. Fipistrellus. Jenyns p. 24. Bell's 

 Quad. p. 23. This is our commonest Species, and flies at 

 all seasons of the year, if the thermometer be not much 

 bi-low 50°. It awakes in a few hours after the weather 

 has become mild, and is not uncommonly seen abroad in 

 the middle of a fine day, 



* LONG EARED BAT, Plecoteis Auritus* Jenyns, p. 27. 



Bell's Quad., p. 53, Not uncommon, 

 BARBASTELLE. V. Barbastellus. Jenyns, p. 28. Bar- 

 basteilus Daubentonii, Bell's Quad., p, 63. Rare. 



* GREATER HORSE SHOE BAT, Minotopkus Ferntm 

 Equinum. Jenyns, p. 19. Bell's Quad., p, Q'S. This is 

 much more rare than the next Specie?. 



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