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3IAMMALS OF LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTL.AND. 
the contrary, the same tooth is extremely small, and is out of the line of the 
others, so as to be almost entirely invisible from the outside. 
WATER-SHREW. Crossopus fodiens (Pallas). 
Harley wrote : — “ Not common. Occasionally met with on the banks of 
water-courses and drains in the meadow-lands near Loughboro’.” The late 
Hr. Widdowson wrote, in Feb. 1885: — “I know one locality they frequented 
a few years ago — namely, Sysonby, about a mile from Melton.” Mr. F. Bates 
told me, in 1885, that he had found them some years before, at Narborough. IMr. 
J. S. Ellis told me, in 1885, that, some five-and-twenty years previously, when 
he lived at Glenfield Lodge, he remembered one day seeing a Water-Shrew 
swimming and diving in a small pond, endeavouring to capture a Frog, but, 
although successful in bringing it to the bank half a dozen times, was unable 
to drag it out. IMr. W. H. Thompson writes me that he has noticed the Water- 
Shrew in a brook which runs past Stoughton Grange, close to Leicester. He 
appears to know the animal well, as he says : — “ It had its habitat in a small 
hole in the bank. They were called Water Mice by us.” 
Family EKINACEID^. 
COIMMON HEDGEHOG. Erinaceus europceus, Linmeus. 
Resident and generally distributed. — I have received several from Knighton, 
close to the town of Leicester, where it breeds. On the 13th September, 1883, 
an old female Hedgehog and four young ones were brought to me from thence. 
Another, caught also at Knighton, we endeavoured to keep. It remained for 
some time in the work-room at the ^Museum, hiding itself during the day under 
the box of a step leading from one room into another. Our porter, who was 
very kind to it, tells me that he saw it several times away from its retreat, 
but that it was not at all tame, although he constantly fed it with bread and 
milk. One day it came out while several of us were there, and the next day 
it ran around our feet squeaking and trying to nibble at our boots. It would 
not, however, eat bread and milk, so we procured meat, liver, apples, potatoes, 
carrots, anything we could think of, but it refused everything, though apparently 
very hungry. The next morning it was dead. 
Ordek CHIEOPTEEA. 
SuB-oEDER MICRO-CllIROPTERA. 
Family YESPEETILIONID^. 
BARBA STELLE. Sjnotus harbastellus (Schreber). 
Rare. — The Rev. A. IMatthews shewed me a specimen which I recognised as 
this curious little Bat, procured at Gumley about 1876. 
