270 Mr. F. M'^^Coy's Contributions to the Fauna of Ireland. 



22. Soi'ex ? soccatus, milii. — Size and proportions of the last 

 nearly, but distinguished by its feet being clad in fur down to 

 the nails, and by its depressed head and tumid bulging cheeks 

 (mystaceal region). Ears large and exposed as in the first two 

 species [murinus and pygmceus), and like them having a rounded 

 tapering tail, but somewhat longer in proportion than theirs. 

 Colour a uniform sordid or brownish slaty blue, extending to the 

 clad extremities. Size nearly of the last. Snout to rump Sc- 

 inches ; tail 2^ ; head ly'-g- ; palma i ; planta y| ; weight | oz. 



This animal was caught in a wood plentifully watered, but not 

 near the water. I never saw nor heard of it as a tenant of houses, 

 any more than the last-named. It had no musky smell when 

 brought to me dead. I did not examine its glands. 



P.S. — The above paper completes the notices of Nepalese 

 Mammals published in India, and, like the papers written there, 

 has been composed without the aid of library or museum. 



XL. — Contributions to the Fauna of Ireland. By Frederick 

 M<^Coy, Esq., M.G.S.D. 



[With a Plate.] 



Notices of some of the following animals were read to the Na- 

 tural-History Society of Dublin at the June meeting for 1844. 

 The Invertebrata are a portion of a large series collected by Mr. 

 M*^Calla on the west coast of Ireland, and placed in my hands for 

 examination and description by my valued friend Dr. Scouler, 

 whose kindness t have before had to acknowledge for the liberal 

 manner in which he has always allowed me to examine and de- 

 scribe any specimens of interest either in the museum of the 

 Royal Dublin Society or in his own private collection. 



Mammalia. 

 Vespertilio Nattereri (Kuhl). — The singularly small number 

 of bats found in Ireland only amounting at present to three, of 

 which one ( V. Daubentonii) has occurred but in a single instance, 

 renders any addition to their number of peculiar interest to the 

 Irish naturalist, or to those who take an interest in comparing 

 the fauna of Ireland with that of England. The present species, 

 the reddish gray bat of British authors, has not I believe been 

 hitherto recorded in Ireland ; a specimen however was brought to 

 me last summer by G. Mangan, Esq., and is now in the museum of 

 the Natural-History Society of Dublin ; he killed it near that city, 

 and was of opinion that it was the common species in his neigh- 

 bourhood : whether the pipistrelle (the most common Irish bat) 

 might have been confounded with it on the wing, or whether it 



