262 Rev. L. Jenyns on some of 



on the British Shrews, etc., in former vohimes of this Maga- 

 zine. 



(1.) Vespertilio Pipistrellus, and V. my st acinus. — M. de 

 Selys-Longchamps has favoured me with continental speci- 

 mens of both these species, which prove identical with ours. 

 I deem the circumstance worth mentioning, because, at the 

 time of publishing my paper in the Linnoean Transactions on 

 the common Bat of this country, it was thought by some 

 persons that the proof of its identity with the Pipistrelle of 

 the Continent, obtained from an actual comparison of speci- 

 mens, was still wanting ; and I am not aware of such com- 

 parison having been yet made until now. 



(2.) Vespertilio Daubentonii. — I am quite aware of the 

 error that I committed in my ' Manual,' in confounding this 

 species with the V. emarginaius of Geoffroy ; and 1 have not 

 the slightest doubt of the correctness of Mr. Bell in referring 

 the bat which I described under this last name to the V. Dau- 

 bentonii. 



(3.) Vespertilio (edilis (Ann. of Nat. Hist., vol. iii. p. 73). — 

 MM. Keyserling and Blasius have given it as their opinion, 

 that the bat which I described as new under the above name, 

 is a mere variety of the V. Daubentonii^. I myself alluded 

 in my original paper to the possibility of this being the case ; 

 and I have now scarcely any doubt of the fact, as well from 

 what the above authors have stated, more particularly with 

 respect to the incision at the apex of the tragus occasionally 

 varying in the two ears of one and the same individual, — as 

 from the recent examination of a bat, undoubtedly referable 

 to the V. Daubentonii, in which there was a slight approach 

 to the form of tragus observable in the specimen on which I 

 founded the above species. This last bat was taken in Ireland, 

 and was kindly submitted to my examination by Mr. Thomp- 

 son of Belfast. 



I still think, however, that, though I committed an error, 

 my paper Avill have been of use in calling the attention of 

 British naturalists to the fact of the tragus occasionally 

 varying in form in this manner, of which I do not apprehend 

 they were generally aware any more than myself. 



(4.) Maries Foina. — Mr. Bennett and Mr. Bell have both 

 expressed doubts as to whether the common Martin be di- 

 stinct from the Pine Martin f, though the latter gentleman 

 has for the present kept them separate in his * British 

 Quadrupeds.' Mr. Eyton, in a paper recently printed in 



• See No. 29 of this Journal, p. 149. 



t See Mr. Bennett's remarks on this subject in the ' Gardens and 

 Menagerie of the Zoological Society,' vol. i. p. 2.30. 



