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same year Mills examined one shot in Pembroke, while in 1907 Oldham 

 saw in the possession of Owen two live ones taken in Cardigan (all in lit.). 



Within these limits it is probably numerous, although no doubt 

 overlooked, in most, if not all of the wooded localities, being reported, 

 for instance, as plentiful at Stainborough, Yorkshire (Armitage, 

 Naturalist, 1905, 37), and as one of the commonest species at Colchester 

 (Laver). It has even been taken in Thayer Street, Manchester Square, 

 London (Harting, Zoologist, 1888, 25). 



In the extreme north of England it has never been reported from 

 Westmorland or Northumberland, but the occurrence of a numerous 

 colony at Castletown, near Carlisle, Cumberland, probably indicates its 

 abundance right up to the Scottish border (Macpherson). 



From Scotland two specimens only are recorded, neither of which, 

 unfortunately, is regarded by Scottish naturalists as absolutely satis- 

 factory. The first of these, an immature male in the British Museum 

 {not an adult female as in Dobson's Catalogue of Chiroptera, 308), is 

 registered as from Inveraray, Argyll, August 1858; it had escaped the 

 recollection of the (supposed) donor, the late Duke of Argyll, but there 

 seems to be no valid reason for doubting its authenticity.^ The second, 

 a roughly preserved skin, unfortunately without a label, from the collec- 

 tion of the late Robert Gray, is now in the possession of W. Evans : it 

 may with much probability be connected with Gray's statement to 

 Harvie-Brown that he had found this bat " in some plenty " near 

 Dalkeith, Midlothian, " in dozens in the hole of a tree," this was in 

 1880 (W. Evans, Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc, Edinburgh, xvi., No. 8, 388, 

 27th November 1905). The whole matter has been fully discussed by 

 W. Evans {Maniinalian Fauna of Edinburgh, 22-23, ^^d Anii. Scott. 

 Nat. Hist., 1 90 1, 1 29- 1 31), and at any rate there would seem to be no 

 inherent improbability in the occurrence of this species in Scotland. 

 Coward, it may be mentioned, has a specimen in alcohol, which he 

 believes he received alive from Montrose in 1895; but an undoubted 

 error on the label of the bottle prevents him from making a definite 

 statement. 



In Ireland the species was first made known from an example 

 procured by Mangan at the Scalp, Enniskerry, almost on the Dublin 

 border of County Wicklow, in 1845, ^^^^ presented through M'Coy to 

 the Dublin Natural History Society {Proc, 12th February 1845 ; 

 J. R. Kinahan, Proc, 9th December 1853, published in Dublin Nat. 

 Hist. Review, i., 23, 1854; see also ii., 8, 1855, also vi., 383, 1859; 

 M'Coy, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., April 1845, 270). Dobson had a 

 specimen, still in the British Museum, and dated 1876, from Co. Long- 

 ford, and the bat has since been detected in Donegal, Fermanagh, 



' I have searched in the Duke's correspondence at the Museum, but can find no 

 reference to this specimen ; the entry in the register is, however, quite clear. 



