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In England the Whiskered Bat is said by Mr. Tomes to 

 produce one young one at a birth at the end of June or 

 beginning of July, the exact time depending on the earliness 

 or lateness of the season. Photographs of two very young 

 bats are shown in the lower part of Plate 3 ; these were sent 

 to me by Mr. H. Charbonnier, of Bristol. 



The distribution of this bat in Ireland is shown in Plate 4, 

 which has been kindly lent by Mr. Praeger; the shaded 

 areas indicate the counties in which it has been found. The 

 references for Counties Clare, I,outh, and Fermanagh are 

 from Mr. H. L. Jameson's paper (xi.) ; for Co. Dublin from 

 notes by Mr. Welland (xxiii.) and myself. It is a curious fact 

 that in all except Clare this bat has occurred more than once 

 in the same county, though so seldom in Ireland generally. 



In England, Mr. J. E- Harting (ix.) has collected records 

 from Cambridgeshire, Northampton, Essex, Kent, Warwick, 

 Sussex, Dorset, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Stafford, Worcester, 

 Cheshire, Yorkshire, and Durham. Since the date of his 

 paper records have been published for Derbyshire, Lancashire, 

 and Shropshire, by Mr. C. Oldham (xix., xx.), and for 

 Cumberland by Mr. E- Tandy (xxii.), besides many additional 

 localities for the counties already mentioned. 



In Scotland this bat has been found twice, once at Rannoch, 

 and once near Dunbar. See Evans (vi.). 



In Wales the records are for Merionethshire (Caton Haigh, 

 xviii.), and Carnarvonshire (Oldham, xxi.). 



Authors quoted. (See also pp. 35-6 above.) 



XVIII. CaTon-Haigh, H. The Whiskered Bat iu Merionethshire). 

 Zoologist (3), xi., 1887, p. 297. 

 XIX. Oldham, C. (The Whiskered Bat in Shropshire and Lan- 

 cashire). Zoologist (3), xiv., 1890, p. 349. 

 XX. Derbyshire (Id. (3), xix., 1895, p. 347). 

 XXI. Carnarvonshire (Id. (3), xx., 1896, p. 255). 



XXII. Tandy, E. (The Whiskered Bat in Cumberland). Id. (3), xiv., 

 1890, p. 99. 



XXIII. Weuand, J. (The Whiskered Bat in Co. Dublin). Irish 



Naturalist^ vii., 1897, p. 272. 



XXIV. Oldham, C. The Whiskered Bat in Captivity. Zoologist (^ iii., 



1899, pp. 49-53. 



