16 THE NATURALIST IN BERMUDA. 
“Tt may be inferred from the foregoing observations that 
V. pruinosus, and perhaps one or two other species of 
North American bat, may be found to inhabit the West 
Indian Archipelago, and the northern coast of South 
America, a point I had not the means of ascertaining while 
in the Bermudas. Should these observations and surmises, 
however, be confirmed by future research, I shall claim to 
myself the discovery of the roving habits of the genus 
Vespertilio of the western hemisphere. 
“The Silver-haired Bat, (V. noctivagans,) which was 
captured alive near Hamilton on the Sth of Oct. 1850, 
measured eleven inches in extent, by three and a-half in 
length, including the tail; the tip of the tail extending 
beyond the membrane. The*body was covered with long 
hair of a black, or very dark brown hue, tipped here and 
there with white, particularly from each side of the neck 
to the posterior portion of the back, formimg a whitish band 
in the form of the letter V; the under surface was of 
shorter fur, sprinkled all over with white hairs. 
“This specimen, which is now in my possession, is be- 
lieved to be the only instance of this species eas captured 
in Bermuda.” | 
It appears by the account of May, who published a small 
work detailing the shipwreck of the “Sea Adventure,” 
which took place in July 1609, (a copy of which book 
may now be seen in the library of the British Museum,) 
that Hogs were then found in a wild state upon the Islands 
in great abundance, Sir George Somers having killed 
thirty-two in one day’s hunt. 
CETACEA.—The seas around the Bermudas have been 
known from the earliest period of their history as very 
