A. E. Verrill — The Bermuda Islands. 867 



In the rain record of 17 years the nearest approach to this quantity 

 was in October, 1874, when the fall amounted to 16.50 inches. With 

 that exception we have not, within the above period, ever registered 

 as much as 12 inches in one month, except in November last, when 

 the quantity marked was 12.48 inches. 



Locality of Gauge. Total Rainfall. 



Prospect Observatory . . 18.21 inches. 



Station Hospital, Prospect . . Same return. 



Public Grounds, Hamilton 1 7.05 inches. 



Clermont, Paget 18.62 " 



Government House, Mount Langton 18.05 " 



Gibb's Hill, Lighthouse 9.42 " 



Teucer Place, Somerset 11.38 " 



Boaz Island, R.E. Office 19.90 " 



St. George's, R.E. Office 12.188 " 



The differences in the records are very remarkable over and above 

 the fact that the average fall shows higher than any previous regis- 

 ter during one month. The greatest amount registered during one 

 day (24 hours) was on the 30th of the month : and the several 

 returns for that day give the following widely varying results : — 

 Prospect, 4.42; Hamilton, 1.19; Mount Langton, 1.64; Clermont, 1.67; 

 Gibbs Hill, 1.54 ; Somerset, 3.6 ; Boaz, 6.35 (?) ; St. George's, 1.96. 



Between the 1st and the 15th of the month the records vary from 

 2 inches (Mount Langton) 1.18 (Hamilton) 1.63 (Clermont) .51 

 (Gibbs' Hill) .90 (Boaz) .58 (St. Georges) to nil at Prospect and 

 Somerset. At Clermont 3.15 was registered on the 28th against 3.02 

 at Hamilton and 1.90 at Mount Langton. At Prospect 2.50 was 

 recorded on the 25th against only a very small amount in other 

 localities. The average of the 8 registers taken shows a fall for the 

 month of 15.60 inches." Cavendish Boyle, Beg. Genl. 



Registrar General's Office, Hamilton, Aug. 12, 1886. 



Bats, p. 718. Add the following : 



Two additional species of bats are recorded as from Bermuda, by 

 Dobson. (Catal. of Cheir. in British Museum, 187S ; see also Heil- 

 prin, Bermuda Is., p. 80.) But it seems to me more probable that the 

 locality labels were erroneous, or that these bats were brought to 

 Bermuda from the West Indies, after preservation, for no other 

 examples have been observed. They are as follows : 



Vampyre-bat {Trachyops cirrhosus). West Indies and South 

 America. 



