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Note. Since the foregoing paper passed through the press, two 
circumstances have come to my knowledge, which are so interesting, 
that I am unwilling to allow the present opportunity of alluding 
to them to be lost, and by permission of the Editor I am allowed 
to append this note. 
In instituting a comparison between the Fauna of the counties 
intervening between the rivers Thames and Tweed, in only the 
most northern could I oven allude to the Wild Cat {Fdis catus), 
and then only as a probably extinct species. My surprise and 
pleasure may therefore be imagined at receiving, on the 23rd June, 
a letter from Mr. Cordeaux, informing me of the recent occurrence 
in the county of Lincolnshire of one of these animals, of which 
ho enclosed mo a beautiful photograph, representing an animal 
apparently identical in all respects with the best descriptions and 
figures of the true F. cutns. 
Mr. Cordeaux very kindly gave mo the following information 
with regard to this interesting occurrence : — “ The Cat, a fine old 
Tom, was obtained in the early part of !Marcli, 1883, by Mr. Arthur 
Helton, of Bullington, near Wragby, when out with his gun in a 
small plantation near Bullington Wood. His Dog, a small terrier, 
bru.shed the Cat from beneath some Brambles ; instead of taking to 
night, it instantly attacked the Dog, which it severely mauled. 
Mr. Belton was obliged to run to the rescue, when the Cat took 
to an Oak-tree, crouching between two branches above the bole. 
Seeing that it was apparently making preparations to spring, ho 
fired at its face, and brought it down. ^fr. Belton states it had 
been seen at various times in the neighbourhood for many years 
past. It was subsequently received in the flesh by Mr. W. Barber of 
Lincoln, skinned and set up by him, and remains in his possession, 
where I examined it, and had a photograph taken. I also compared 
it with a Scotch example, shot many years since in the Forest of 
]\[ar, as also with the best written descriptions. There cannot be 
tlio slightest doubt that it is a genuine Wild Cat {Felis catus.) 
“ Bullington Wood is part of a great chain of woodlands extend- 
ing from near Wragby to the neighbourhood of Peterborough, 
largo tracts of which have never known a keeper or been preserved 
for game. Cats are known to have bred wild there for generations, 
so that there is no improbability that the subject of this notice 
