Fauna of the Isles of Scilly (2014) and cedar waxwing ("Bombycilla cedrorum") (2015), awaiting confirmation from the British Ornithologists' Union Records Committee. Slowworms ("Anguis fragilis") have been present around Great Popplestone Bay on Bryher since the 1960s. The "Mammals of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly", an atlas published by the Cornwall Mammal Group lists 56 species for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, but most of the mammals found in Cornwall are missing from the islands. These include European badger ("Meles meles"), red fox ("Vulpes vulpes"), stoat ("Mustela erminea"), weasel ("Mustela nivalis") and most other small mammals such as the voles. (The species are listed
River Meles be subject to contradictory views among scholars and other concerned parties. Homer is connected with the valley of Smyrna and the banks of the Meles. His figure was one of the stock types on coins of Smyrna, one class of which showed the poet sitting, holding a volumen on his knees, and supporting his chin on his right hand was called "Homerian" by numismatists. The epithet "Melesigenes" (which means, "son of Meles" was applied to him. The cave where he was to compose his poems was described as being near the source of the river, his temple, the Homereion, stood