230 RHINOLOPHID^— RHINOLOPHUS 



Berkshire locality is almost the most northerly recorded for England, 

 but must just give place to Whitchurch (lat. 51", 51'), near Ross, on the 

 Gloucester border of Hereford, whence, as Forrest informs me, Rosse 

 Butterfield received six from a cave in November 1910. At almost the 

 same latitude as Henley, De Winton observed it {vide Millais) in the 

 Zoological Society's Gardens, Regent's Park, London. Next come two 

 Gloucester localities, viz., Westbury-on-Trym and the Cathedral at 

 Bristol (Rudge King and Charbonnier). Amongst the other localities 

 from which it has been taken or recorded within its range are: — In 

 Somerset, Clifton (Eagle Clarke), Hampton Road, near Bath, Wells 

 Cathedral, and Clevedon (Charbonnier), the Mendip Caves (particularly 

 abundant, fide Laver ; also Lewis, Zoologist, 1906, 69) and Taunton 

 (Millais) ; in Wiltshire, Great Cheverell {Joiirn. cit., 1910, 307) ; in 

 Surrey, Godstone (rare, Bucknill and Murray) ; in Kent, Rochester 

 Cathedral and Margate (Bell), Maidstone and Dover (Millais), and 

 Canterbury (abundant, Borr er, /ourn. cit., 1874, 4129); in Hampshire, 

 Portsmouth (Borrer, loe. cit.), and Christchurch (Trevor-Battye and 

 Lascelles) ; in Wight, Sandown, Farringford, Bonchurch, and the 

 Underclifif (the commonest large bat of the latter, see More, Bury, 

 Millais, Wadham) ; in Dorset, Tomson Manor (Salter, Zoologist, 1865, 

 9835); in Devon, Teignmouth (Jordan, /i^^/r;/. cit., 1843, 75), Torquay 

 (De Hiigel, Journ. cit., 1869, 1768), Hooe, Plymouth, and Plympton 

 (Rowe) ; in Cornwall, several localities (see Clark) ; a Yorkshire record 

 in tho: Jou7'n. cit., 1884, 483, Editor's note, is an error (see Roebuck, 

 Journ. cit., 1885, 24). 



In Wales the bat has a haunt at the Mumbles, near Swansea, 

 Glamorgan {Field, ist Jan. 1881, 24), and has been found by Tracy in 

 the old Wogan Cavern, near Pembroke Castle, Pembroke (Kelsall, 

 Zoologist, 1887, 89) ; Grabham also took a specimen from a disused mine 

 near Penmaenpool, Merioneth (Caton Haigh, Zoologist, 1896, 433); 

 and Forrest received another, shot by Rawlings on 5th February 1896, 

 at Barmouth, in the same county (both in lat. 52° 30'). 



M'Coy suggested that a bat of " great size " captured in Co. West- 

 meath, Ireland, prior to 1845, and characterised by the possession 

 of " a large-pointed appendage on its nose," was of this species, but the 

 evidence of its identity was entirely hearsay, and it may well have been 

 an example of some exotic form. M'Coy appears to have mentioned 

 the occurrence in a paper read before the Dublin Natural History 

 Society, on 12th Feb. 1845, reported in Saunders's News-letter of the 

 same date, and quoted by J. R. Kinahan before the same Society on ist 

 April 1859 (see Dublin Nat. Hist. Review, vi., 383, 1859). 



The almost entirely south-western distribution oi R.ferriini-equinuni 

 (south of 52°) in England, together with its extension northwards on 

 the Welsh coast to a point nearly a degree north of its English range, 



