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MAMMALS OF LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND. 
counties, and some of the cut Deer-antlers from the gravels and alluvia, a 
full report of all of which appeared in my article — “ Evidences of the Antiquity 
of Man in Leicestershire,” — published, with three plates, in the ‘ Transactions 
of the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society,’ for October, 1888, pp. 7-37. 
As yet, I have been unable to discover any implements of Palaeolithic 
3Ian in the counties, although, misled by some doubtful specimens in the 
Museum, I was anxious to believe I had discovered other than accidental 
forms. It may be, however, that, owing to glacial phenomena which I have not 
space to discuss in these pages, Man did not inhabit our district in Mid, or 
Late, Pleistocene times ; but, as we find remains of two Elephants, a Ehinoceros, 
and other Pleistocene mammals, I am still hoping against hope that, despite 
the fact of many of these being re-deposited, we may yet find implements of 
Paleolithic Man. 
Order CARNIVOEA. 
Sub-order CARNIVORA VERA (or FISSIPEDIA ). 
Division iELUROIDEA. 
Family F E L I D Ail . 
WILD CAT. Felis catiis, Linneus. 
Extinct within Historic times. — No authentic records are extant relative 
to the occurrence, in the counties, of the Wild Cat, which, without doubt, 
disappeared from the ancient forests and fastnesses about the same time as 
the Wolf and Wild Boar. Neither Mr. T. R. Potter, in his ‘ History and 
Antiquities of Charnwood Forest’ (1842), nor the late Mr. James Harley, 
writing 1840-55, nor, indeed, any observer of note, mentions this animal. 
Large specimens of the Domestic Cat, which have taken to a wild life, have 
been often shot as game-destroyers in the various woods of the counties, 
and some have been forwarded to the Museum as the true Felis catus ; 
but that the Wild Cat has occurred in either Leicestershire or Rutland for 
many hundreds of years is improbable, and there is no foundation whatever 
for the statement at p. 303 ‘Midland Naturalist,’ 1884, that “there is a 
Wild Cat, which is now extremely rare, if not quite extinct in the county ” 
(Leicestershire). 
Division CYNOIDEA. 
Family C A N I D AE . 
WOLF. Canis lupus, Linnaeus. 
Extinct within Historic times. — Potter (p. 7) writes: — “Charnwood formed 
part of the ancient Celtic Forest of Arden, which extended from the Avon to 
