The Zoologist— September, 1874. 4127 



Vesperiilio Nattereri. — On the 29th of June, 1848, in taliing off 

 the ridge-tiles of a roof in this parish, about a dozen bats were 

 found, only one of which was captured, a male specimen of this 

 species, and on the 8th of July another male at the same place. 

 On the 4th of December I received another, also a male, from the 

 roof of Cowfold Church. I have received specimens from Henfield 

 and from London, and I took one myself from a hollow in a beech 

 tree, in St. Leonard's Forest, in the parish of Lower Beeding, 

 Sussex. Of its habits and flight I know nothing. I have also 

 received this species from Ensbury, Dorset, and from Bonchurch, 

 Isle of Wight. 



Vespertilio emarginatus. — Of V. emarginatus I can only say that 

 the nearest to it which I have seen is the specimen now in the 

 British Museum, which was taken by Mr. G. Buckton at the 

 Charlton paper-mills near Canterbury, by means of a piece of white 

 paper at the end of a fishing-rod, and is now, I believe, called 

 V. dasycneme. See 'Journal of Linnean Society, 1853,' and 

 'Zoologist' for 1854 (Zool. 4357). 



Vespertilio Dauhentonii. — One evening, in July, 1849, T strolled 

 into the churchyard of Christchurch, Hants, and my attention was 

 called to a great squeaking of bats, of which I saw a continuous 

 stream issuing from an aperture in the north wall of the church ; 

 they all appeared to be making towards the river: both their note 

 and their flight were new to me. The next day I called on the 

 verger, and got him to show me into a chamber in the church with 

 which this aperture communicated : there, clinging to the ceiling 

 and the walls, I saw many hundreds of this species. The floor, too, 

 had many large heaps of their excrement, which I advised the 

 aforesaid verger to experimentalize on in his garden : in some 

 places these heaps were quite knee-deep. The bats were clinging 

 together in great masses; I stirred them up with a long stick, and 

 many took to flight. I had, however, great difficulty in capturing 

 them with a butterfly-net, but the place being very warm I took 

 off my coat, and, standing quite still, was rather surprised, as well 

 as pleased, to find that many settled on my white shirt-sleeves, 

 and I easily took as many specimens as I required. On several 

 evenings after, I saw numbers flitting, much in the manner of sand 

 martins, over the surface of the river near the bridge in the town, 

 never appearing to rise very high in the air, and seldom flying 

 much beyond the river-banks. One of those I obtained in the 



