LIST OF SPECIES. 



Class MAMMALIA. 



Order CHIROPTERA. 



Sub-Order MICROCHIROPTERA, Dobson. 



Family RHINOLOPHID^, Gray. 



Sub-Family RHINOLOPHINJE, Dobson. 



[Genus RHINOLOPHUS, Geoffroy. 



Rhinolophus ferrum-equinum, Schreb. GREATER 

 HORSE-SHOE BAT. 



This bat is stated in both editions of Bell's British 

 Quadrupeds and also in Cassell's Natural History, to occur at 

 Colchester. I believe, however, that some mistake was made 

 with regard to the locality of the specimens. The Horse-shoe 

 Bats are so distinct in flight, and so unmistakable in the hand, 

 that I do not think I am in error in affirming that neither 

 occurs in this district. This is the more remarkable when we 

 consider their abundance at Canterbury, but a short distance 

 south of Essex. They are also plentiful in the western 

 counties of England, and any number may be found in the 

 caverns in the Mendip Hills. It must not be supposed that 

 their absence from Essex is a question of climate, since they 

 occur much farther north. The smaller species, R. hipposideros, 

 has been taken in the neighbourhood of Ripon, in Yorkshire, 

 which is probably its northern limit.] 

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