COMMON BAT, PIPISTRELLE OR FLITTER-MOUSE 103 



Sor. Toscana diSci. Nat., 3, fasc. i, Z^j, Pisa, 1877) to be synony- 

 mous with luaurus of Blasius and bonapaiii of Savi, has the 

 forearm reaching 34 mm., the tragus broadest at its middle, and 

 having two small lobes projecting from its hinder border, and 

 a broad callosity on the foot ; P. subflavits (Cuvier) of North 

 America, has the thumb larger, and the forearm reaching 

 34 mm. 



THE COMMON BAT, PIPISTRELLE OR FLITTER-MOUSE. 



PIPISTRELLUS PIPISTRELLUS (Schreber). 



1667. Flitter-Mouse, or Rear-Mouse, Christopher Merrett, Pmax, 172. 



1693. Vespertilio : The Bat or Flittermouse, John Ray, Synopsis Quadrupedum, 243. 



1760. La PIPISTRELLE, L. J. M. Daubenton in E. L. le Clerc, Comte de Buffon's 



Histoire Naturelle, viii., 129-130, 135, 137, pi. xix., fig. i ; also, Mem. de I'Acad. 



Roy. des ScL, 381, pi. i. (14), fig. 3, 1759, published 1765 ; described from France. 

 1766. Short-eared Bat, Thomas Pennant, British Zoology, ed. i, 55. 

 1775. Vespertilio pipistrellus, J. C. D. von Schreber, Die Siiugthiere, i., pi. liv., 



167, evidently naming Daubenton's La Pipistrelle ; Jenyns, Trans. Linnean Soc. 



(London), xvi., 163, read 3rd Feb. 1829, published 1833 ; Bell (ed. i) ; Clermont ; 



Flower and Lydekker. 

 1789. Vespertilio murinus, Gilbert White, Selbome, letter xi. to Thomas Pennant, 



9th Sept. 1767, original edition, 32 ; Berkenhout ; Bingley ; Donovan; Fleming; 



not V. murinus of Linnaeus, 1758 = (probably) V. DISCOLOR of Natterer ; not 



V. MURINUS of most continental writers = MvOTis myosotis (Bechstein). 

 1811. Vespertilio pipistrella, P. S. Pallas, Zoographia Rosso-Asiafica, i., 123, 



No. 48. 

 1825. Vespertilio pygm/EUS, W. E. Leach, Zoological Journal, i., 560, pi. xxii.; 



figured by Bell in both editions ; described from a young specimen taken at 



Spitchweek, Dartmoor, England, and now in the British Museum. 

 1829. PIPISTRELLUS PIPISTRELLUS, Jakob Kaup, System der Eicropiiischen Thierzuelt, 



i., 98; Miller, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., Oct. 1897, 384; Thomas, Zoologist, 1898, 



100 ; Johnston ; Mehely ; Cabrera ; Millais, 79. 

 1833. Vespertilio brack yotus, L. A. F. Baillon, Mem. de la Soc. Roy. d' Emula- 

 tion d^ Abbeville, 50 ; an unrecognisable species, probably referable io pipistrellus; 



described from a specimen {collo super, tiigro) from Abbeville, France. 



1838. SCOTOPHILUS MURINUS, J. E. Gray, Mag. Zool. and Bot., 497 ; MacGillivray. 



1839. Vesperugo PIPISTRELLUS, A. Graf von Keyserling and J. H. Blasius, Wieg- 

 mann's Archiv fiir Naturgeschichte, i., 321 ; Blasius; Fatio ; Dobson ; Blanford ; 

 Lydekker. 



1840. Vespertilio minutissimus, Heinrich Schinz, Europaische Fauna, i., 9 ; 

 described from Zurich, Switzerland (type in Zurich Museum). 



1840. "V. MELANOPTERUS et STENOTUS, Brehm," aiict. et op. cit.; described from 



Renthendorf, Thuringia, Germany, and Switzerland. 

 1840. "V. PUSILLUS, Brehm," rtz/r/. et op. cit. 



