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Whiskered Bat is commoner there than the Pipistrelle, contrary 

 to what he found to be the case years ago in Cambridgeshire. 

 His letter on the subject of this and other species of British 

 Bats is so interesting that (thanks to Mr. Kelsall) we think it 

 well to print the information which it contains. He writes (Bath, 

 Feb. 10, 1887) : — " Both larger and small Horse-shoe Bats are 

 frequent in this neighbourhood, and we have specimens of both 

 species in our local museum, taken together in stone-quarries 

 near Bath. From the same quarries we have V. Nattereri, but it 

 is rare. It is a fact of some interest, in respect of the distribution 

 of our British Bats, that the Pipistrelle — which is so extremely 

 abundant in Cambridgeshire, and common generally — has only 

 occurred to me here in two or three instances, the Whiskered Bat, 

 mystacinus, apparently taking its place, and often found in shops 

 and houses. Just the reverse in the Eastern Counties— there 

 mystacinus is rare, the Pipistrelle everj'where. When speaking 

 of the Little Horse-shoe, I might have added that many years 

 back I had specimens sent me from churches in Bristol. I see I 

 have added " Wales" in my 'Manual'* to the habitats of the Lesser 

 Horse-shoe, but I cannot, at this distance of time, remember on 

 what authority. I fear I have not told you much that will be of 

 much use to you— but my work in Natural History is done." 



From Garner's 'Natural History of Staffordshire' (Suppl., 

 p. 33), and Sir O. Mosley's 'History of Tutbury' (preface), we 

 learn that the Whiskered Bat has been identified in that county, 

 where a specimen was procured at Burton. In Worcestershire 

 (Zool. 1857, p. 5590) and Cheshire also examples have been 

 obtained. In the last-named county, as reported by Mr. W. D. 

 Boebuck ('Naturalist,' 1886, p. 113), one was found asleep on 

 the top of a stone wall at Fernlee, near Whaley Bridge, in 

 May, 1885. 



In Lincolnshire Mr. Caton Haigh has failed to find it, although 

 well acquainted with the species from observation elsewhere (Zool. 

 1887, p. 144). In Yorkshire Mr. W. D. Roebuck has established 

 its occurrence, having received specimens from three different 

 localities in that county — namely, from Great Mytton, in Ribbles- 

 dale; from Harrogate, in August, 1881; and from Eavestone, 

 near Ripon, in March, 1882 (Zool. 1882, p. 147). Writing to the 

 Editor on the 18th April last, Mr. Roebuck says : — "I am sorry 



* ' Manual of British Vertebrate Animals,' 1835. 



