THE VERTEBRATE ANIMALS 
OF 
LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND. 
Class MAMMALIA. 
Sub-class EUTHERIA (or MONODEL- 
;MAX, Homo sapiens, Linnaeus. 
In a county like Leicestershire, which had for its capital, in Roman times, so 
important a city as Rates, founded probably upon the site of a Keltic settle- 
ment, the remains of Man should be fairly abundant ; and, if we are content 
with those of the Early Historic Period, the relics of the Saxon, and especially 
of the Roman, are fairly abundant, as witness the varied collections of bones, 
arms, ornaments, and pottery in the Leicester Town Museum. When, however, 
we step over the threshold of the known into the unknown, the case is different, 
and few indeed are the remains of the people of the Coranied —known to the 
Romans as Coitanni, Coi'itani, or Coritavi,* that powerful tribe holding, by 
conquest, those lands which now comprise Leicestershire, Rutland, Derbj^shire, 
Xottinghamshire, Northamptonshire, and Lincolnshire, and whose camp — Rath 
Coranied — was in the vicinity of Leicester (some say at the Rath or “Raw-dykes”). 
Probably to this Late Keltic Period may be ascribed the few barrows still re- 
maining, and some few articles now preserved in the Museum ; whilst to an earlier 
Neolithic people may be ascribed most of the stone implements found in the 
* It 13 probable they were, before the Romans reached Leicester, subject to the still 
more powerful Brigantes— the original “Britons” or Kelts; and some authors hold that 
the Coritani, with another Keltic tribe, subsequently constituted the Iceni. 
Order PRIMATES. 
Sub- ORDER A NTHR OP OIDEA . 
F AMiLY HO MINIFY. 
B 
