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Smitli : Lincolnshire Mammals. 



Order RODENTIA. 

 Fam. SCIURID^. 

 SciURUS VULGARIS L. SQUIRREL. Very common in all parts of the county. 

 Fam. MURID.f:. 



Mus MiNUTUS Pall. Harvest Mouse. Very rare. Mr. Max Peacock 

 saw it once in Bottesford Parish. A nest with female and young- in 

 wheat field in 1887. 



Mus SYLVATicus L. LoNG-TAiLED FiELD MousE. Very abundant. A 

 larg-e form of M. sylvaticiis with a buff collar on throat, or rather on 

 chest, which is found in many parts of the South and East of England, 

 has probably occurred near Grantham. It has been described as 

 distinct under the name of M . Jiavicolles (G. H. Caton Haigh). 



Mus MUSCULUS L. House Mouse. Very abundant. 



Mus RATTUS L. Black Rat. Was once common in most of our seaports 

 and is now met with occasionally. It still occurs on the Grimsby 

 Docks, generally making its home in the grain warehouses. 



Mus DECUMANus Pall. Brown Rat. Very abundant. 



MiCROTUS AGRESTIS L. COMMON FiELD VoLE. Very common. Mr. J 

 Cordeaux, referring- to cultivation about the year 1793, says: — 'In 

 Deeping Fen we are told the mice (doubtless the Short-tailed Field 

 Mouse) had multiplied to such a degree as to almost starve the sheep. 

 The land was alive with them, so that a certain Mr. Greaves in a field 

 of a few acres, killed eight or ten by his horse treading- on them.' 



MiCROTUS GLAREOLUS Sch. Red Bank Vole. Very common. 



MiCROTUS AMPHiBius L. Water Vole. V^ery common. 



MuscARDiNUS AVELLANARius Kaup. DoRMOUsE. Is said to occur in the 

 woods of South Lincolnshire. 



Fam. LEPORID.^. 



Lepus EUROP^us Pall. Hare. Very common throughout the county. 

 White Hare was shot at Grunoldby in October 1889, and many instances 

 • of this form has occurred. A specimen is preserved in the L.N.U. 

 Museum, Lincoln, 



Lepus cuniculus L. Rabbit. Exceedingly abundant. Rev. J. Conway 

 Walter records a White Wild Rabbit recently seen at Fulletbv in 

 a warren, and states that black ones are by no means uncommon. 



Order UNGULATA. 

 F^am. CERVID.^:. 



Cervus dama L. Fallow Deer. Preserved in Brocklesby Park by the 

 Right Honourable the Earl of Yarborough. 



Order CETACEA. 

 Fam. bal.e:nid.e:. 



Megaptera longimana Gray. Hump-back Whale. Only three or four 

 specimens of this mammal have been recorded as occurring- in British 

 seas, one of which was stranded on the Lincolnshire Coast at Mumby 

 Chapel in 1894. It was a small specimen about twentv-five feet long. 

 Mr. G. H. Caton Haigh secured the head. 



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