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tainty be recognized as the Barbastelle. Although there 

 is no English Bat which resembles the Barbastelle in 

 its mode of flight, yet in choice of situation there are 

 several. Where the Whiskered Bat and Pipistrelle are 

 seen, the Barbastelle may be seen also, but having been 

 once observed, it will, probably, be useless to make 

 search again at the same place. Equally uncertain is 

 its diurnal retreat; most likely not the same place for 

 long together, as we have found it in places where it 

 could not have rested the day previously. A crevice in 

 a wall or tree, the spaces between the rafters and tiles of 

 a cowshed, the timber over a sawpit, the thatch of a 

 shed in a brickyard, or behind a cottage window-shutter, 

 are suitable places of repose for the Barbastelle, in all 

 which situations we have met with it, and always alone. 



Mr. Jenyns states that the Barbastelle has been ob- 

 tained in Northamptonshire and Cambridgeshire, and its 

 occurrence in Suffolk has been recorded in the "Zoologist" 

 by our friend Professor Newton, and at Easton in Nor- 

 folk by J. H. Gurney, Esq., M.P. This individual was 

 taken from behind the bark of a pollard willow, a notice 

 of which appears in the fifth volume of the " Zoologist." 

 In the first volume of the same useful periodical is a 

 notice of its occurrence at Epping, by Mr. Doubleday. 

 It appears, so far as we can ascertain, never to have been 

 met with in the Northern parts of England or Scotland, 

 and Dr. Kinahan does not record it in his account of the 

 Bats of Ireland. 



As already stated, it inhabits Germany ; it is found 

 also in France and Italy, and, according to Baron de 

 Selys Longchamps, in Belgium, where, however, it is 

 stated to be very rare. We find it included by M. 

 Nilsson in his Scandinavian Fauna, by Prof. Brandt, in 

 his work on the Mammals of Russia, and by M. Nord- 



