100 RHINOLOPHIDJE. 



Gal way, by Professor King, and in considerable numbers 

 in different parts of county Clare by Mr. Foot ; and Prof. 

 Kinahan has communicated an interesting account of this 

 amongst other species now ascertained to be indigenous 

 to Ireland, in the first part of his Mammalogia Hiber- 

 nica.^ He says that it appears to be the common Bat of 

 that part of Clare in which it occurs. 



Specimens which we have examined from various parts 

 of Europe have presented no considerable degree of 

 variation from British examples, but those from North 

 Africa are usually somewhat paler in colour. A single 

 specimen in the Paris Museum, which was collected at 

 the Cape of Good Hope by M. Jules Verreaux, is, how- 

 ever, somewhat larger than any we have seen from this 

 country, or indeed from any part of Europe. 



Its great resemblance to the former species renders it 

 unnecessary to give a lengthened description of it. The 

 nasal appendage is very similar in most of its parts ; the 

 erect process between the nostrils is much less cupped at 

 the base, and the hood at the top is less prominent ; the 

 frontal leaf itself is lanceolate, and of greater relative 

 size than in the Ferrum-equinum ; and what may be called 

 the outer margin of the horse-shoe, i.e. that part which 

 lies upon the upper lip, is less closely applied, and has 

 its extreme edge somewhat crenulated. The ears are 

 rather more deeply sinuate on the outer margin, and the 

 transverse sulci scarcely apparent a peculiarity which is 

 well preserved in Buffon's figure and the lobe is larger 

 in proportion. The muzzle is less tumid. The fur is 

 equally soft and full ; and the colours are very similar, 

 the upper part being a little browner, and the under part 

 rather more yellow. 



* Taken from the Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Dublin, 

 vol. ii. 



