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at Spornal Park, in Warwickshire. It is not very un- 

 usual to see this Bat abroad during the day, even in 

 bright sunlight. One observed about noon on the 16th 

 of April, 1852, p at the village of Welford, about a mile 

 from the abode of one of the authors of the present 

 work, when captured, was found to answer admirably to 

 the description of the Vespertilio humeralis of M. Baillon. 

 As in that so-called species, there was a well-defined pure 

 black spot at the insertion of the humerus. 



The Whiskered Bat brings forth one young one at 

 a birth, about the end of June or in July; the exact 

 time depending, in this species as in others, upon the 

 forwardness of the spring, or, in other words, upon the 

 period when they emerge from their winter's repose. 



Hitherto we have not heard of the occurrence of the 

 species in Scotland, and in Ireland it appears to have 

 been observed but once. Its occurrence at Feakle, in 

 the county of Clare, is recorded by Dr. Kinahan in 

 the Proceedings of the Natural History Society of 

 Dublin.* 



To the country in which it was first discovered by 

 Leisler, we may add, on the collective testimony of M. 

 Hollandre, Baron De Selys Longchamps, Prof. Blasius, 

 M. Nilsson, and Prof. Brandt, the following countries, 

 viz. : France, Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden, and Russia ; 

 and we find it included in the recent work on the 

 Mammals of the Amoor by Dr. Leopold von Schrenck.f 

 Finally, we think that the Himalaya Mountains will 

 have to be given as a habitat, as 4 the Vespertilio sili- 

 gorensis of Mr. Hodgson J appears to differ in no 



* Vol. II. 



f Reisen u. Forschungen im Amur-Lande in den Jahren, 1854-56. Bd. 

 I. Saugethiere, 1858. 



t Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., August, 1855. 



