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this epooies alivo, I was stopping at the Vale of Ovoca, connty of Wick- 

 low, when the chufch of Castlemacadam was undergoing some repairs, 

 when one of the men came running in to me with one he had just cap- 

 tured, and which, from the oddity of its appearance, waving its long ears 

 about in every direction like ram's horns, he was afraid to hold securely; so 

 that I had scarcely got sight of it when he let it go, and away it fluttered. 

 I, however, went at once with the man to the place, and, having ascended 

 to the loft which intervenes between the ceiling of the church and the 

 rafters, I beheld the most extraordinary spectacle, — hundreds of those 

 little creatures clung in festoons to the rafters, hanging by their hindlegs, 

 with their heads downwards, not only to the rafters, but to each other, 

 in pendant clusters, as huge as a man's hat. Being quite unprepared 

 for finding such a multitude of specimens, I fear avarice for a moment 

 mastered our better feelings, for we filled two or three milkpails with 

 them:'— Saunders' News-LeUer, Feb. 12, 1845. 



In 1839, a specimen was taken out of a hole in the centre of a stone 

 wall, in my presence, at Cloverhill, county of Dublin. 



Localities : Dublin, in many localities ; according to my own ex- 

 perience, common; Kildare, Frederick Haughton, Esq., specimen in 

 Royal Dublin Society; Aughnacloy, Tyrone, Edward Waller, Esq., 

 q. V. ; Kerry, W. Andrews, Esq. ; Youghal, Robert Ball, Esq., LL. D. ; 

 North of Ireland, William Thompson. 



It would appear, therefore, to be as universally distributed in Ireland 

 as in England. 



Genus — Vespertilio. 



Head round ; forehead convex ; face elongated ; tragus generally 

 pointed. 



Dentition : false molars f . 



Whiskered bat, VesperttUo mystacinus {Leisler) ; V. humeralia {Tem- 

 mincJc). 



Dentition: fj, H ; .total, iS- 



Upper lip furnished with a moustache of fine hairs ; general colour 

 of back blackish; tragus more than half length of ear, lanceolate pointed; 

 intcrfemoral covered beneath by numerous white ciliated bands, fringed 

 with hair. 



DIMENSIONS. 



Inches. 



Length of head and body, 20 



Head, 075 



TaU, 1-58 



Ears, 0-40 



Tragus, 02 



Forearm, 1-3 



Spread of wings, 80 



The above measurement of the wings is taken in a straight line 

 across the back ; following the curvature of the wings, they measure 

 10-5 inches nearly. The breadth of the ear is 3 inch. 



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