THE EXTINCT MAMMALS OF LAKELAND xlix 



PILOT WHALE. 



Globicephalus melas (Trail). 



Shoals of this small Whale have on several occasions within 

 living memory received a record in our local papers as having 

 visited the Solway Firth. I have no moral doubt that specimens 

 have been obtained in both the English and the Scottish Solway, 

 but in the absence of material to prove this positively, the 

 species has been excluded from the body of this work. It is, 

 however, noteworthy, that a lumbar vertebra belonging to the 

 genus Globicephalus was found in the Silloth excavations. In 

 the summer of 1889, an entire skeleton of this animal was 

 unexpectedly disinterred in a back yard in Caldewgate, Carlisle. 

 Had information been sent to me at once, a perfect skeleton 

 could have been secured for the local museum. Unfortunately, 

 I did not hear of the find for two days, when I hurried to the 

 spot and found the skeleton broken up. The cranium was not 

 much injured, but the boys of the neighbourhood had seized the 

 opportunity of practising a little amateur dentistry, and had 

 extracted every tooth from the head of the animal. There can 

 be no reasonable doubt that this animal must have been taken 

 in the waters of the English Solway, but at what period, no 

 man can positively decide. 



Order UNGULATA. Fam. SUIDjE. 



WILD BOAE. 



Sus scrofa, L. 



In early times, when the savage men who once tenanted the 

 remote fastnesses of the Lake mountains were accustomed to 

 slay their quarry with bone arrow-heads, 1 the Wild Boar must 

 have wallowed in many of the miry sloughs of our lower 

 grounds. The Bev. J. Wharton assures me that Bran-pow, the 

 name of a Westmorland stream, should be rendered Brawn's 

 pool, i.e. the place where the wild swine came to wallow. No doubt 

 this animal was early domesticated. I imagine that some at 

 1 A bone arrow-head was found in the Helsfell fissures. 



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