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DORSETSHIRE FAUNA. 
xi. Erinaceus. Urchin. 
22. EuropcBus. Hedge Urchin. G. W. 
Order II. PRIMATES. 
xii. Rhinolophus. Horse-shoe. 
23. ferrum-equinum. Greater Horse-shoe. Hanging by one hinder 
foot from the ceiling of an old house ! 
xiii. Vespertilio. Bat. 
25. murinus. Common Bat. G. W. 
29. noctula. Great Bat. G. W., &c. We once killed a dozen or 
more over the porch of the door. 
36. auritus. Longeared Bat. I think I have seen this species in 
Dorsetshire, and probably many others, in old churches, such as that at 
Wimborne. 
Order III. GLIRES. 
xiv. SciuRus. Squirrel. 
39. vulgafis. Common SquirreL G. W., &c.; also a variety with a 
white tail; sometimes found entirely black. 
XV. Myoxus. Dormouse. 
40. avellanarius. Wood Dormouse. G. W., &c. 
xvi. Mus. Mouse. 
42. messoriiis. Harvest Mouse, G. W., &c. Sometimes reddish. 
43. musculus. Common Mouse. G. W., &c. 
44. rattus. * Black Rat. I have heard that this animal was common 
here formerly; it is now nearly extinct, except in Lundy Isle, Devonshire^ 
where it is plentiful. 
45. decumanus. ^Norway Rat. G. W., &c. Too well known, 
xvii. Arvicola. Arvicule. 
46. amphibia. Water Arvicule. G. W. 
47. agrestis. Short-tailed Arvicule. Lulworth, Charmouth. 
xlx. Lepus. Hare. 
50. timidus. Common Hare. G. W. 
51. cunicidus. Rabbit. Too common. 
Class II. BIRDS.t 
Order I. RAPTORES. Preyers. 
* These two species ought to have been separated, either getierically or stibgenerically, from 
the Mice.—E d. 
+ The figures in parentheses refer to the Rev. F. 0. Morris’s list^ the rest, as before, to Mr. 
Jenyns’s work. 
