{Authors are responsible for nomenclature used.) 



The Scottish Naturalist 



No. 72.] 1917 [December. 



WILD LIFE IN A WEST HIGHLAND 

 DEER FOREST 



By William Eagle Clarke, LL.D. 

 {Continued from page 264.) 



Tins instalment affords supplementary information relating 

 to the various forms of wild life already mentioned in the 

 general survey of the Forest. To these have been added a 

 few records of altitudinal range, chiefly of Insects. 



The altitudinal ranges have received special attention. 

 They are based upon Ordnance Survey data and determined, 

 in all cases, by the aid of an aneroid barometer, whose 

 accuracy is vouched for by a Kew Observatory certificate 

 ordinary instruments are usually not sufficiently accurate for 

 special work of this nature. 



MAMMALS. 



Common Bat or Pipistrelle, Pipistreilus pipistrellus. 



The occurrence of a Bat amid the wilds of a remote Deer 

 Forest, and at an altitude of 1300 feet, is of considerable interest. 

 Bats have been known at the Lodge for some years, and a pair 

 which came under my notice there on the evenings of the 8th and 

 19th June 191 7, were of this species. 

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