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Africa and th greater part of temperate Europe and Asia. It 

 appears to have been first recognised as a British species by 

 the late Rev. Leonard Jenyns (Blomefield), who provisionally 

 identified it with the Vespertilio emarginatus of Geoffrey an 

 identification which was subsequently corrected by Bell. In 

 Britain it appears to be pretty widely distributed, although 

 more common in the southern and midland counties than 

 further north, and very variable in this respect, even in the 

 former districts. Thus, whereas Bell speaks of it as being 

 very common in some parts of Warwickshire, Mr. Montagu 

 Browne records only one specimen known to him from 

 Leicestershire. Only a single example appears to have been 

 recorded from Yorkshire (Zoologist, 1891, p. 395). At an 

 early period of its British history it was obtained from near 

 Winchester ; and Bell records it from Durham, while the Rev. 

 H. A. Macpherson notices one specimen captured on the 

 Carlisle canal in 1852, and a second near Ulswater, eleven 

 years later. Although somewhat rare even in the Lake District, 

 this Bat extends into Scotland, having been long known from 

 Aberdeenshire, and recently recorded from the extreme north- 

 east of Banffshire. Some years ago, as the writer is informed by 

 Mr. Harvie-Brown, great numbers of these Bats were discovered 

 in an old vault in the castle of Gight, in Aberdeenshire, but 

 immediately after their discovery and disturbance they forsook 

 their old quarters, and their new habitation has not been 

 discovered. Since this species is not mentioned by Messrs. 

 Harvie-Brown and Buckley as occurring either in Sutherland, 

 Caithness, Argyllshire, or the Hebrides, it may be presumed 

 that its range does not include the extreme north of Scotland. 

 In Ireland it has been recorded from Kildare, Deny, and 

 Donegal, and probably occurs elsewhere, although it is rare. 



Habits. The essential peculiarity in the habits of Dauben- 

 ton's Bat is its extreme partiality for water, on the surface of 



