412 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
and Bats, probably of this species, have been occasionally 
watched flying persistently backwards and forwards over the 
ponds there. In August of the present year a female was killed 
by a farm labourer near Polperro, and sent in the flesh to the 
writer. An example of the Whiskered Bat (7. mystacinus, Leisl.) 
was obtained by RK. O. Waters, of Truro, near Fowey on Aug. 
24th, 1901. In captivity it was restlessly active, and curiously 
agile and dexterous in its movements when not aware that it was 
under observation. It was extremely timid, and for several days 
refused all food. Gradually, however, it took to eating finely 
chopped raw meat in the dark, but refused freshly killed insects. 
It was highly sensitive to sudden illumination, and when the 
corner of the cloth that usually covered the cage was lifted, even 
in a room with a north light, it would dash excitedly from side 
to side for a minute or more, and would take no further food for 
a day or two. Ina north room it was not at all affected by the 
dawn. At the end of a month it was as wild and unapproach- 
able as when first captured, and was consequently taken back to 
Fowey one evening and liberated. 
Among the Insectivora, the Hedgehog (Hrinaceus europeus, 
L.), the Mole (Talpa europea, L.), the Common Shrew (Sorex 
araneus, L.), and the Water Shrew (Neomys fodiens, Pall.) are 
plentiful and generally distributed. The Pigmy Shrew (Sorex 
minutus, Pall.), though widely distributed, is probably scarce, 
and has been overlooked by previous naturalists. The first 
specimen seen by the writer was captured alive at Launceston 
Castle in June, 1900. Photographs of this and of the other 
Shrews were shown to the members of the Agricultural class at 
Liskeard, and as the result an example of the Pigmy Shrew was 
brought in the following year from near St. Keyne. In 1903 
F. J. Polkinghorne trapped two at Bodmin, and one was identi- 
fied in the early autumn near Truro. Several have been obtained 
since in the Truro-Falmouth district, and in the spring of 1907 
one was brought in from Lostwithiel. It has been reported from 
Helston and Trevaylor, near Penzance, but the writer has seen 
no specimens from further west than Maenporth. 
The Fox (Vulpes vulpes, L.) is generally distributed in suitable 
localities throughout the county, but has its strongholds in the 
rough broken cliff-land of the coast, where it is locally plentiful. 
