Class 1. MAMMALIA. 



Sub-class MONODELPHIA. 

 Order CHIROPTERA. 



Sub-order MICROCHIROPTEEA. 



Family VESPERTILIONnXE. 

 Vesperugo pipistrellus (Schreb.). Pipistrelle. 



We have very few notes of bats at all, but Mr. Moodie-Heddle 

 sends us two instances of their occurrence. One was seen in the 

 evening flying about the rigging of a vessel lying off Fara, in the 

 South Isles, in either 1834 or 1835. In the other case, one or 

 more haunted a plantation at Melsetter in the summer of 1879. 



We have entered these notices under this species, as, 

 although none were secured, they are more likely to belong to 

 this, which is the common northern form, than any other. 



Mr. Reid also saw a bat caught at Kirkwall in 1861, but 

 does not name the species. 



Mr. Eanken says he has seen "bats" ten or twelve times in 

 Orkney, always in the neighbourhood of his garden, or of the 

 Cathedral at Kirkwall. 



Mr. Harvey mentions having seen what he took to be a 

 bird, but which was evidently, from his description, a bat, in 

 July and August of the three successive years from 1884 to 

 1886, in Sanday. 



Vesperugo noctula (Schreb.). Noctule. 



The late Mr. Heddle had a note of one captured at S. Eonaldsay, 

 and preserved by the Eev. J. Gerard, but this probably relates 

 to the American bat described further on. 



