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avoit egalement nourrit ses enfans par une mammelle 

 supernumeraire inguinale ! " Kuhl, however, who paid 

 particular attention to the subject, declared that these 

 supposed inguinal nipples in Rhinolophus were nothing 

 more than cutaneous warts, without the slightest appear- 

 ance of mammary glands beneath them. 



The Great Horse-shoe Bat was added to the list of 

 European Cheiroptera by Daubenton, and was first dis- 

 covered as a British species by the venerable Dr. Latham, 

 by whom it was communicated to Pennant, who pub- 

 lished it in the fourth edition of his " British Zoology." 

 Dr. Latham's specimen was taken in the saltpetre 

 houses belonging to the Dartmouth powder-mills. It 

 has since been found in many localities : in Bristol and 

 Rochester Cathedrals, in caverns at Clifton, at Col- 

 chester, and we have seen examples from the Undercliff, 

 Isle of Wight, and from Margate. It appears, however, 

 never to have been observed in any of the Northern or 

 even Midland counties, and is probably confined in its 

 range to the Southern or Western parts of our island. 

 Montagu found it in considerable numbers, in company 

 with the Smaller Horse-shoe Bat, in the well-known 

 cavern near Torqua} 7 , called Kent's Hole, a retreat so 

 dark and gloomy, that no other species, even of this 

 lucifugal family, were found to frequent it. The French 

 naturalists equally record the retreat of this species to 

 be chosen in the darkest and least accessible caverns, in 

 abandoned quarries, and other subterraneous excavations. 



Mr. James Salter has communicated to us in the follow- 

 ing note another locality in which this species has been 

 found : 



" I caught one of these Bats (Rhinolophus ferrum- 

 equinum) in the ' haunted room ' at Tomson Manor 

 House, Dorset, Sep. 29, 1865. It was flitting about the 



