Clarke axd Koebuck : Veetebrate Fauna op Yorkshire. 149 



Birds. — Numerically the Yorkshire avifauna remains at 307, the 

 addition of the Rustic Bunting being counterbalanced by the subtrac- 

 tion of the Barbary Partridge. Should, however, specific rank be 

 accorded to Pallas's Great Grey Shrike, as is done by Mr. Seebohm, 

 this form would also rank as an addition. 



" Here it will be advisable to call the pointed attention of onr readers 

 to the two paragraphs at the head of p. xxxvii, of the Introduction to 

 our Handbook, w^hich appear to have been overlooked by some of our 

 critics, who might there have learned that we never allowed or 

 recognized the claims of such dubious records as those of Richard's 

 Pipit, the Purple Martin, the Great Black Woodpecker, the Hairy 

 Woodpecker, the Little Owl, the Acadian Owl, the Harlequin Duck, 

 the Passenger Pigeon, the Virginian Colin, the Sooty Terri, and the 

 Laughing Gull. None of these are included in our numerical 

 summaries, although in the body of our work we felt it quite within 

 our duty to give the evidence of their occurrence for what our readers 

 might consider it worth. 



Reptiles axd Amphtbiaxs. — As to these groups there is nothing 

 to remark except that it is very desirable that naturalists should keep 

 a look-out for further occurrences of the Natterjack Toad in the 

 county. As to the so-called Sand Li/ard, we have not yet been 

 satisfied that the animal occurs so far north, the Northumbrian 

 occurrence hinted at on p. xli. being a myth. 



As to the Fishes — the least-investigated class in our fauna — we 

 are pleased to be able not only to add seven species to the list, but to 

 give a variety of further particulars and additional occurrences of 

 interesting forms ; and it may be as well to remark that to the severe 

 storms which prevailed in early April, 1882, w^e owe several records of 

 pelagic and abyssal forms, such as the Torpedo and the Deal-fish, and 

 other rare species. No doubt had naturalists been more numerous in 

 our sea-board towns and villages, others would have been detected. 



The numbers which are prefixed to the names are intended to 

 correspond to those used in the Handbook. 



MAMMALIA. 



1. RJiinolophus hipposideros (Bechst.). Lesser Horse-sJwe Bat. 



This species — an important addition to the Yorkshire fauna— is not 

 uncommon at Eavestone, near Ripon, where it is taken by Messrs. 

 James Ingleby and William Storey, from both of whom Roebuck 

 has received specimens in the flesh, and one or two alive (Zool 

 1882, p. 186 ; Nat. 1882, p. 166). 



