4128 The Zoologist — September, 1874. 



church had a young one clinging to the nipple, which in no way 

 appeared to impede the flight of its parent. On the 3rd of April, 

 1856, 1 obtained this species from the Isle of Purbeck, and in July, 

 1863, from Ulswater, where, as I am informed by a friend, as well 

 as at Grasmere, they do not fly till late at night over the lakes, 

 but in the boat-houses, &c., they fly by day. I have also seen 

 specimens taken at Preston, near Brighton, a locality in which 

 I should not have expected them, as they appear to be especially 

 addicted to water, and there is none there. 



Vesperiilio mystacinus.— On the 5lh of November, 1848, an 

 adult male was brought me by a servant, who found it suspended 

 by the thumbs, and not by the hinder feet, from a crack in the 

 ceiling of my coal-cellar, here at Cowfold. This cellar is slightly 

 below the surface of the surrounding garden ; and in the following 

 June I picked up one dead in the same garden. Early in January, 

 1853, I received an immature male shot near Dover — singularly 

 late for it to be abroad, but the weather was remarkably mild, there 

 having as yet been no real frost, and the thermometer rarely below 

 40° at night and from 48° to 50° by day. In August, 1859, a young 

 male was sent me, taken in an ivy-covered wall near Wimborne, 

 Dorset. One day, late in June, 1845, one of these bats was sent 

 me which had flown against a man's white frock in the day time at 

 Lindfield, Sussex : it had probably been disturbed by the pulling 

 down of some buildings near: while seems particularly attractive 

 to bats. 



Plecotits auritus. — Of this bat, which seems to be the most 

 generally difl'used, 1 will only mention that I have seen two snow- 

 white specimens, one of which is in the possession of Mr. F. Bond 

 and the other in my own. The latter was taken at Horsham, 

 Sussex, in May, 1872, curiously enough, on the same premises as 

 Mr. Bond's. I have never seen white specimens of any other 

 British species. P. brevimanus of Professor Bell appears to be 

 only the immature Auritus, which Mr. Bell told me he was satisfied 

 was the case. 



Barbastellus Dauhentonii. — Of this I can only say that 1 have 

 on several occasions taken it from under the thatch of summer- 

 houses in Henfield, Sussex, and on two occasions I have taken 

 specimens which had flown into a house at night in the same 

 village of Henfield. I have also received it from Hornsey, Mid- 

 dlesex ; and one was taken in a house at Ensbury, Dorset, in 



