v iF e a t J ö r
counties have been added., and fttfes oo
. (Elliott), Lancashire,® Cumberland,*
Coward informs me that Mr. Oldham
in Cheshire, although they have exam
me 1892 in a forge at Red Bank, oat
[anchester; probably this example had
come from some more rural part of
a few miles distant. The late Rev. H. .
at Castletown, in Cumberland, in 1886,
the late Mr. T. C. Heysham, who had
urrences m burrey/
Huntingdon and
and he have failed
ned one which was
of the most thickly
been introduced in
k. Macpherson noted.
Harting mentions Mr. Caton-Haigh’s record for Merioneth in Wales,
Backhouse* records thirty-six taken from a ruin in North Wales, bui the
ility is not given. We cannot add to the two localities given lot $c< itinerary,
where the example in the British Museum was obtained bv d
Argyll, and Edinburgh.7
Ireland Mr. Harting mentions cos. Wicklow, Kildare, Queen’s, Cork, and
Dublin, while Mr. Hart® adds Donegal. Dr. H. Lyster Jameson9 gives a fuller
list, adding Fermanagh, where he found examples associated with the Daubenton's
Bats in Bohoe Caves. Louth, and Longford. He points out that the Wicklow
and Dublin records evidently refer to the same Bats, but makes no mention of the
example from co. Cork recorded by Mr. Darling. The counties of Kildare and
Queen’s are both mentioned, as the examples recorded were taken b -m the masonry
of the bridge which crosses the river Barrow, dividing the two ■ mties. This
record was stated to be erroneous, for most of the Bats proved to be Daubenton’s ;
but Dr. Jameson points out that one of the specimens was found to have a fringe
of bristles on the interfemoral membrane, so that we may safely conclude that,
as at Bohoe, the two species were inhabiting the same retreat.
1 Bucfcton, Viet. H ist.' Surrey,’ and Dalgleish, Meld, vol. c. j
3 Buttress, Zoologist, 1892, p. 144. 3 Hid. 1893, p, 457
5 Kelsall, ibid. 1889', p. 308. 6 Ibid 1898, p. 493.
7 Proe. Gifts. N .H .S. iv. The original record of the Inver
Cheiroptera in the British Museum (55878), p, 307. The speciiv«--.
bearing the date 1858. In a footnote on p. 6 of ‘ A Fauna of A
Buckley inform us that in one of Robert Gray's tetters that mi
(1880) ‘ in dozens in the hole of a trey,’ and ‘ is in ivieitty wsar i c
think the species referred to was probably M. Hatmtom.
* Zoologist1891, p. 271.
1 Matting, quoting Maephersou, ibid. 1889, p. 309.
»peonaen is to be found sr. iJobson’s Catalogue of the
ma received in the flesh and is now preserved in spirit
® and the Inner Hebrides,' Messrs. Harvie-Brown and
(bt refers to Natterer’s Bat as having been discovered
eith,’ Midlothian. I certainly question this record, and
* Irish Naturalist, 1897, p. 39.
NATTERER’S BAT.