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[Atalapha cinerea (Beauvois). Under the name of Ves- 

 pertilio pruinosus, Say, the late Mr. Wolley recorded the capture 

 of a specimen of this American species in South Ronaldsha, Orkney, 

 in 1847 (Zoologist, 1849, p. 2343; op. rib, 1850, pp. 2695, 2813). 

 As he himself suggested, there can be little doubt that it was 

 accidentally brought over in a ship. As far as I am aware this is 

 the only known instance of an exclusively American bat having 

 been taken in Europe.] 



3. Yespertilio daubentoni, Leisler. 



Daubenton's Bat. 



Appears to be pretty widely distributed on the mainland, but 

 to be local. It was first correctly identified as a Scottish species 

 by William Macgillivray, who took it in Aberdeen Cathedral, in 

 1840 (Eclin* N. Phil. Joum.,xxxi.,-p. 205), and John Macgillivray 

 captured eighty individuals in two clusters in the same building 

 (Ami. and Mag. Nat. Hist., viii., p. 230). Fleming had already 

 recorded its occurrence in Fifeshire under the name of V. emar- 

 ginatus (Brit. An., p. 6); Macgillivray found it in Dumfriesshire 

 (Nat. Libr., xxu., p. 95); Mr. B. Gray tells me he has met with 

 it in Kirkcudbright; a specimen captured in Glasgow Green, is 

 preserved in the University Museum (Alston, P. N. H. S. Glasg., i., 

 p. 203); and another, caught in the West-end Park, has been 

 lately submitted to me by Mr. J. M. Campbell. As above 

 remarked, this probably may be the V. auriculatus of Walker, 

 but his description is quite insufficient for certain identification, 

 otherwise his name would take priority of Leisler's. 



Order II.: INSECTIVORA. 

 Family: ERIN AC EI DAE. 



4. Erinaceus europaeus, Linnaeus. 



Hedgehog. 



Scot., Hurchin, Hyrchoune (Barbour). (From Old French, 

 Ericon, a hedgehog, or from Low Germ., hurken, to crouch or 

 curl?) 



Gael., Crainaig. 



Very common in the Lowlands, and rapidly spreading to the 

 northward, but has not yet been met with in Sutherlandshire. 



