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that on the hinder parts reddish-brown. The 

 underneath parts are dark gray. The ears are 

 about as long as the head, squarish in shape, and 

 set obliquely forwards. 



The whiskered bat may be recognised by its 

 moustache and a row of hairs on its forehead. 

 The upper parts are reddish-black, the lower 

 ash-gray ; the fur is long and woolly. It fre- 

 quents houses, hollow trees, and caverns. It has 

 been observed in Cambridgeshire, Northampton- 

 shire, at Colchester in Essex, and at Chislehurst 

 in Kent. 



The reddish-gray bat has been found in Cam- 

 bridgeshire, Colchester, Norwich, and Chislehurst. 

 The colour of the fur is of a light reddish-gray 

 above, and silver-gray beneath ; the ears are of 

 a yellowish-gray. Its general colour is said to 

 be lighter than that of any other of our British 

 bats. Of the specimens referred to (from Jardine's 

 work), some were found in hollow trees, and some 

 in the shaft of a chalk cavern, seventy feet below 

 the surface. 



Daubenton's bat, of which Jardine records four 

 specimens as having been discovered in Britain, 

 viz., in Northamptonshire, Islington, Fifeshire, and 

 Dumfriesshire, is of a grayish-red above and ash- 

 gray beneath ; it measures nine inches across the 

 wings. 



The notch-eared bat, of which but a very few 

 specimens have been discovered in this country, 

 may be recognised by its beard and moustache. 



