NOTES ON THE TEXT. 

 IBook jftrst, 



MAMMALIA. 



Order CARNIVORA. Fam. FELIDjE. 



WILD CAT. 



Fells catus, L. 



1 The Wild Cat lingers among the Fells of Cumberland only by 

 tradition ' (p. 11). 



The Yorkshire Post of May 4, 1892, announced that a Wild 

 Cat had just been killed ' at Belah Bridge near the Stainmore 

 Fells.' The Eev. J. Wharton took an early opportunity of 

 informing me that the animal in question proved to be ' an 

 errant domestic " Tom " which had led an anchorite life.' The 

 late William Pearson wrote the following note in 1839: 'I 

 believe I once saw one many years ago. It was caught in a 

 snare on Cartmell-fell, and was a very fine animal. . . . Al- 

 though it appears to be now extinct in our district, yet I have 

 talked with a famous hunter, John Elleray (he died not many 

 years since at the advanced age of more than ninety), who had 

 been at the death of more than one Wild Cat.' 1 



Order CARNIVORA. Earn. MUSTELID^. 



BADGER 



Meles taxus (Schreb.). 



' Whether the Badger really became extinct in Lakeland within 

 the limits of the eighteenth century is a difficult point to settle (p. 44). 

 The late William Pearson wrote in 1839 that the Badger 

 1 Letters, Papers, and Journals, p. 49. 



