FAUNA AND FLORA OF NORFOLK : MAMMALIA. 
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It can hardly be expected that any considerable additions will 
be made to our local Mammalian Fauna, and the only direction in 
which it is likely to be extended is in that of the Cheiroptera. 
1 think it highly probable that a closer study of these animals by 
one who has more time and better opportunities to devote to it 
than have fallen to my lot, Mould be rewarded by the discovery of 
two if not three species of Hat which have not yet been detected 
in this county; the Serotine, Hairy-armed, Daubenton’s, and 
Whiskered Bats should be looked for. The Common Dolphin 
is also conspicuous by its absence, but the only other direction 
in which we can hope to meet with new species is from wandering 
Cetaceans, and a special watch should be kept on the Seals which 
are so frequently captured on our shores. 
The tu'o species new to the list are marked by a *. 
Meles taxus. Badger. 
Two Badgers have been taken in Norfolk since my last list, both, 
probably, escapes; the iirst was shot by a keeper in Holkham Park, 
in January, 1893, and the second u’as taken alive at Whitlingham, 
near Norwich, on the 30th November, 1893, and is, I believe, still 
living in the possession of the captor, Mr. J. Matthews, Junr., 
of the Hall Farm, Whitlingham, at the time of my writing this. 
* P fi oca I3ARUATA. Bearded Seal. 
The occurrence of this fine species on the Norfolk coast is of 
considerable interest, and it is, I believe, the first undoubted 
instance in which it lias been found in British waters. The 
example in question, a young male, was captured alive at 
Burnham Ovcry, and after being exhibited about the country for 
some months died at Lynn early in February, 1893 ; it M-as 
eventually purchased for the University Museum of Zoology, 
Cambridge, where its skeleton is preserved. It is remarkable 
that this species and P/ioca hinpida should only have been taken 
on the Norfolk coast. Full particulars of this event will be found 
in the present volume of our * Transactions,’ p. 555. 
Halich.erus gryl’uus. Grey Seal. 
An old female was captured at Wells on the 28th February, 
1892, as recorded by Colonel Feilden in our ‘Transactions,’ vol. v. 
p, 419. The skull is preserved in the Norwich Museum. 
