﻿64h Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society. 



published,! the simple fact that they had occurred was all 

 that was known concerning some of them. As regards 

 the Cetaceans, they have been under the special care of 

 Sir William Turner, and, needless to say, have been recorded 

 with singular precision and fulness. 



In my Memoir above referred to, besides giving the results 

 of my own investigations, I endeavoured to bring together 

 all the scattered records of any importance that were known 

 to me. In a supplementary paper (since published 2) I have 

 brought the subject down to date. The number of Mammals 

 recorded from " Forth " in these two papers is 50, of which 

 18 are marine and mostly casual visitors, only 3 — the Common 

 Seal {Phoca vitidina), the Porpoise {Phoccena communis), and 

 the Beaked Whale {Hyperoodon rostratiis) — occurring with 

 any regularity or frequency. Of the 32 terrestrial species, 

 24 are more or less common and widespread, 5 are rare or very 

 local, and 3 — Wild Cat, Marten, and Polecat — are probably 

 now extinct. The Whiskered Bat has occurred but once, the 

 Black Rat is represented in these days only by a race or races 

 confined practically to the shipping in the ports, while fresh 

 records of the Harvest Mouse [Miis messorius) are much to 

 be desired. An unproved but likely record of Natterer's Bat 

 awaits corroboratiou.^ The recent introduction of the 

 Badger to Lord Rosebery's estates in Linlithgowshire and 

 Midlothian is a fact in the local history of this animal 

 necessary to be borne in mind. 



Few additions to our list of Mammals can now be hoped for, 

 though the Bats undoubtedly need further investigation, and 

 an additional Cetacean or Seal may yet put in an appearance.* 



1 "The Mammalian Fauna of the Edinburgh District," with records of 

 occurrences of the rarer species throughout the south-east of Scotland 

 generally, published in Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc, vol. xi. pt. i. (1891) pp. 85- 

 171, and, with some slight alterations and additions, as a separate volume in 

 1892. 



2 "The Mammals of the Edinburgh or Forth Area — Supplementary 

 Notes," ibid., vol. xvi. No. 8, pp. 387-405, 1907. 



3 Of. my paper on the subject in Ann. S. N. H., 1901, p. 129. - 



^ A White-beaked Dolphin {Lagenorhynchm alhirostris, Gr.) — an ad. S 

 8 feet 8^ inches in length — has since been captured near Cramond on 26th 

 March 1907 (B. Campbell, Ann. S. N. H., 1907, p. 65). The stranding of a 

 Lesser Rorqual, 16 feet long, at North Queensferry on 3rd May 1905 is 

 mentioned in the publications of the Dunfermline Nat. Soc. for that 

 year, p. 7. 



