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have now entirely deserted it; and though Mr Dunn has 

 made diligent search himself in every likely place, and has 

 kindly afforded me an opportunity for a personal examination 

 this summer, we have not succeeded in finding their present 

 quarters. It is possible these Bats were a colony of V. 

 daubentoni; but it must be remembered that Mr Gray was 

 well acquainted with that species, having reported its occur- 

 rence on several occasions, and that, after all, the existence of 

 V. nattereri in the district is by no means so very unlikely, 

 looking to its range on the Continent, and seeing it has 

 apparently already occurred in Scotland, a specimen (an adult 

 female) in the British Museum being labelled "Inveraray, 

 August 1858," and identified by no less an authority than 

 Dr G. E. Dobson ("Catalogue of the Chiroptera," p. 308). 

 I ought to say, however, that the Duke of Argyll, from 

 whom the specimen is said to have been received, has no 

 recollection of the matter (letter to Mr Harvie-Brown, 24th 

 March 1891). This record appears to have escaped the 

 notice of Mr Alston when he drew up his paper on the 

 Scottish Mammals, and might have been overlooked by me 

 also, but for Mr Harting's article on the species, published in 

 the "Zoologist" for 1889, p. 247. 



To the same writer's article on the Whiskered Bat ( Ves- 

 pertilio mystacinus Leisl.) in the "Zoologist" for 1888 (p. 165), 

 I am indebted for a clue which has enabled me to trace an 

 undoubted Scotch example (the only one on record) of this 

 species also. The specimen, which is in the Manchester 

 Museum (Owens College), was captured by Mr J. Kay Hardy 

 of that institution, who writes me as follows : " I took the 

 Bat you mention about four miles from Eannoch on the road 

 to Pitlochry, early in June 1874, while sugaring for Noctuce. 

 I struck at him with my entomological net, and the cane rim 

 caught him and knocked him down. He died in my hand." 



