170 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OP GLASGOW. 



The Land Mammals of the Clyde Faunal Area. 



By Hugh Boyd Watt. 



[Read 28th June, 1904.] 



* Indicates au extinct species in the area, 

 t ,, introduced ,, ,, 



The following notes, along with my account of the Clyde 

 Marine Mammals {Trans, of the Nat. Hist. Socy. of Glas., VI. 

 (N.S.), 1902, pp. 191-8), complete our information for the area 

 to the present date. 



A chronological method has been followed, and details are 

 given of the history of species, with the object of showing their 

 past and present status and distribution. It seemed to me 

 that such details might supplement the very valuable and 

 important work done by the late Mr. Edward R. Alston in this 

 field. (See the entries under his name at the end of this paper.) 



To obviate burdening the pages, references are not generally 

 given in the text, but the list of authorities appended contains the 

 names of tlie most important works consulted. I take the 

 02Dportunity of expressing my thanks to all who have supplied 

 me with infoi-mation, and thus assisted in a measure of com- 

 pleteness being attained in this faunistic survey of the extensive 

 and varied district dealt with. 



ORDER CHIROPTERA. 



Out of the twelve species of Bats recorded for the British Isles, 

 five only are included in the Clyde List. While it may be that 

 not much attention has been given to the group, it also seems 

 clear that the Bat fauna of the district, although poor, is not 

 any poorer than that of other Scottish areas. 



Family Rltinolu-phidce. 

 1. [Rhinolophus hipposiderus (Bechst.) — Lesser Horse-Shoe 

 Bat, Crookstou Castle is named in the new Statistical Account 



