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NOTES ON CORNISH MAMMALS. 
Bye Jamas Comms MAl DiSe., ARIES! 
Tue first local naturalist to pay much attention to the Mam- 
mals of Cornwall was Jonathan Couch. In the first volume of 
his ‘Cornish Fauna,’ published in 1888, he gives an annotated 
list of county species, and from that time up till his death con- 
tributed occasional notes on the subject, chiefly to ‘ The Zoolo- 
sist. In 1849, Dr. W. P. Cocks, of Falmouth, included a list of 
mammals in his ‘ Fauna of Falmouth,’ and in 1861 Dr. W. K. 
Bullmore, in his ‘ Vertebrate Fauna of Falmouth,’ greatly in- 
creased our knowledge of their local distribution. From that 
time onwards the subject was unaccountably neglected for nearly 
forty years. The only indication of interest during that long 
period was the revision of Couch’s ‘Mammals’ by J. Brooking 
Rowe in 1878 for publication by the Royal Institution of Corn- 
wall, and the appearance of one or two notes in ‘ The Zoologist’ 
by T. Cornish, of Penzance, chiefly on the occurrence of the 
Black Rat in the county. 
The following notes are based on the observations of the 
writer and his pupils during the last nine years. Those made 
prior to November, 1905, have been incorporated in the article 
on Mammals in the ‘ Victoria History of Cornwall,’ but a con- 
siderable amount of systematic observation has been carried out 
since that time. 
The Greater Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus ferrum-equnum, 
Schreb.) was first mentioned by Cocks as having been found in 
a cave between Swanpool and Pennance Head, Falmouth, and 
the record is quoted by Bullmore. There is apparently no refer- 
ence to any other county occurrence till 1899, when the writer 
discovered a dilapidated specimen in the Museum of the Royal 
Institution of Cornwall, Truro, marked ‘‘ Looe, 11th September, 
1862.” Though the history of this specimen could not be traced, 
the handwriting on the label was identified by Canon Moor, of 
