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I believe, collected on the coast of Ecuador, but no indication of 
their exact locality accompanies them. They are probably the first 
Specimens received in this country, and accord accurately with the 
figure given by M. Wagner in the fifth volume of his Supplement to 
Schreiber’s work on ‘ Mammalia.’ 
3. NocTiLio Leporinus, Linn. sp. 
Of this species Mr. Fraser has forwarded several specimens, one 
of which has the following highly interesting note attached :— 
“«Esmeraldas, Nov. 1859; skimming the bank of the river, every 
now and then making a dash along, and actually striking the water, 
catching the minute shrimps as they pass uj stream. He hada 
very offensive fishy smell.” 
This is the first recorded instance which I have met with of 
any species of Chiroptera being actually aquatic in its habits. 
From the great resemblance which exists between the fur of the New 
Zealand Mystacina, and that of the Water Shrews, and indeed that 
of other mammalia with similar aquatic habits, I had long ago been 
led to suspect that that Bat might be aquatic in its mode of life, but 
I could never gather direct evidence on the subject. Certainly I 
little suspected that this Noctilio took its food in the manner noticed 
by Mr. Fraser. 
4. EMBALONURA CANINA, Pr. Max. sp. 
Three specimens only have come to hand. 
5. VESPERTILIO ALBESCENS, Geoff. 
V.. chiloénsis, Waterh. 
The specimens which I refer to this species differ in a very trifling, 
though constant manner, from the specimens from which the de- 
scriptions of the V. albescens of M. Temminck and the V. chiloénsis 
of Mr. Waterhouse have been taken. These are identical, as I have 
recently ascertained by an examination of the originals. 
The chief difference between them and Mr. Fraser’s examples 
consists in the greater length and silkiness of the fur of the latter. 
At present I do not feel justified in describing them as of a new 
species. 
6. Feuis 2 
Resembles in size and proportions (including the shortness of its 
tail) Felis tigrina; but its markings are very like those of Felis 
macroura. The following note by Mr. Fraser informs us that it is 
young, and this being the case renders its identification very difficult : 
«Killed on the banks of the Zamora River in January 1858. Young 
male.” 
7, TAPIRUS AMERICANUS, Gmel. 
T.. suillus, Wagn. Supp. Schreib. iv. 294. 
A cranium which is obviously identical with several, labelled Ta- 
pirus americanus, in the British Museum. 
