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others may now be added ; some in the counties already named, 

 others elsewhere. For example, in Essex the late Mr. Doubleday 

 obtained two examples at Epping, and Dr. Laver has found it 

 near Colchester (Trans. Essex Nat. Field Club). In Kent it has 

 occurred at Dover, whence in January, 1853, Mr. W. Borrer 

 received a specimen (Zool. 1874, p. 4128). The same naturalist 

 has reported {I. c.) its occurrence in Sussex, at Cowfold and Lind- 

 field, and in Dorsetshire at Wimborne in August, 1859. In 

 Hampshire it may be looked for about Winchester, whence 

 Macgillivray received a specimen which he supposed to be 

 V. emarginatus, Geoffroy (Brit. Quad., 1838, p. 90), as pointed 

 out by Bell (p. 70), though he described V. mystacinus in the 

 same volume. Since then, namely, in 1873, Lord Lilford picked 

 one out of the Avon below the bridge at Christchurch, as it was 

 swimming against a moderate stream (Zool. 1887, p. 60); and 

 quite recently Mr. Edward Hart, of Christchurch, has very kindly 

 forwarded another specimen from that locality. Writing on the 

 15th April inst., he says :—" To-day, a charming bright spring 

 day, I saw V. mystacinus flying about the dining-room window, 

 catching flies and insects on and near a chestnut-tree, where 

 I watched it for over an hour at mid- day." From the Isle of 

 Wight Mr. Bond procured two specimens of this Bat; one taken 

 at Sandown by the late Rev. Charles Bury; the other shot at 

 Freshwater by himself; and Mr. Kelsall writes word that Mr. 

 Rogers, of Freshwater, sent him one which was taken at Niton, 

 and which is now in the Rugby school museum. 



The record by the Rev. Leonard Jenyns (now Blomefield) 

 regarding the occurrence of this Bat in Northamptonshire, has 

 been confirmed by the more recent observation of Lord Lilford, 

 who has noted (Zool. 1887, p. 60) the capture in 1870 of three or 

 four examples in the belfry of Tichmarsh Church in that county. 

 As supplementing Mr. Tomes's testimony to its occurrence in 

 Warwickshire, we may add that, in 1851, Prof. Flower procured 

 a live specimen at Stratford-on-Avon, from which he made a 

 water-colour drawing, which he kindly placed at our disposal, 

 and which is here reproduced (Plate II). The specimen lately 

 forwarded from Christchurch by Mr. Hart has likewise been 

 sketched by Mr. G. E. Lodge, and will be utilised later. Replying 

 to an enquiry from Mr. J. E. Kelsall, the Rev. Leonard Blome- 

 field (formerly Jenyns), now resident at Bath, asserts that the 



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