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MR. W. G. CLARKE ON VERTEBRATE ANIMALS 
I. MAMMALIA. 
1. Long-eared Bat ( Plecotus auritus). B. “Have noticed 
no rarer mammal than the Long-eared Bat ” (F. Norgate in litt .) 
2. Noctule or Great Bat (Vesperugo noctula). B.R. 
3. Pipistrelle or Common Bat ( Vesperugo pipistrellus). C. 
4. Hedgehog ( Erinaceus europceus). R.E. 
5. Common Mole (Tcdpa europceus). Very common. “Cream- 
coloured specimens at Roudham ” (Trans.) Cream-coloured Moles 
occur at Elveden, hut have not been seen on Barnham Common 
(where they were formerly plentiful) for two years. 
6. Common Shrew (Sorex vulgaris). “Ranny.” C. 
7. Lesser Shrew ( Sorex pygmceus). R. “ Mr. E. Bidwell 
has albino specimen from Thetford ” (Trans.) 
8. Water Shrew (Crossopus foclietis). R. Have seen it more 
frequently by Shad well Lake than in other localities. 
9. Fox (Cams vulpes). R.R. Most frequent at Wretliam, 
Bushford, and Elveden. 
10. Pine Marten (Mustela martes). E. “ A Marten trapped in 
Blackwater Carr is preserved at Riddlesworth Hall ” (Mr. W. H. 
Tuck in litt. ) 
11. Polecat (Mustela put orius). R. “ Caught many years ago 
at Fakenham and on Grange Farm, Euston ” (Rev. R. B. Caton, v.v.) 
“ Saw an unusually large Polecat, big enough for a full-grown 
Marten ; I could not be sure which species, as it ran out of 
a rabbit hole on Barnham Heath into the pine belt on the Elveden 
boundary, so straight away from me that though I was very near 
it, I could not form any idea of the length of its tail ” (F. Norgate 
in litt.) One seen five years ago near Croxton Road Bridge, 
Thetford. 
12. Stoat or Ermine (Mustela erminea ). C. “In bird- 
stuffer’s at Thetford in 1882, counted forty-one white or nearly 
white Stoats, not all killed in one year, but a fair accumulation ” 
(Southwell, Trans.) Two hundred were trapped on Thetford 
Warren in 1893, in six weeks. 
13. Weasel (Mustela vulgaris). C. 
14. Badger (Metes taxus). R. “Badgers formerly lived 
in a spinney on the Honington side of Fakenham” (Rev. 
R. B. Caton, v.v.) In days of yore one formerly lived in the 
