THE WHISKERED BAT. 1G5 



that my knowledge of the Whiskered Bat is confined to its 

 geographical range. Of the numerous specimens which I have 

 seen all have been dead, or nearly so, and consequently I have 

 had no experience of its habits. As to distribution, I may say 

 that it is one of our common species in Yorkshire, and well 

 distributed throughout the county wherever anyone has paid 

 attention to Bats at all, either personally, or by sending me 

 specimens. The three species, Plecotus auritus, Vespei'tilio mysta- 

 cinus, and Scotophilus pipistrellus are not very .far from being 

 equally common, so far as the number of specimens I have 

 received are concerned. I do not know whether you care to cite 

 localities in the county ; if so, I will furnish some of them. At 

 present I can say that I have had it from Leeds, Ilkly, Great 

 Mytton, Pateley Bridge, Masham, and Beverley." 



Proceeding further north, we find evidence of its existence in 

 Durham, whence a specimen, formerly in the collection of 

 Mr. Raine, is now in the possession of Mr. Bond, who also has 

 an example which belonged to Dr. Heysham, of Carlisle, where 

 it was captured. It is labelled " found adhering to a house-side 

 in 1832." We learn from the Rev. H. A. Macpherson, a speci- 

 men was not long since procured on the banks of the river 

 Eden. Messrs. Meynell and Perkins, in their " Catalogue of 

 the Mammalia of Northumberland and Durham" (Trans. Tyneside 

 Nat. Field Club, vol. vi., 1864), include the Whiskered Bat, with 

 the following note :— " Shotley Bridge (Darlington ?), W. Back- 

 house. The lines on the interfemoral membrane are numerous 

 as in V. daubentonii, but the parallel lines number 12. It is 

 altogether of a much darker colour, and smaller in nearly all 

 respects."— IV. B. Until lately this was perhaps the northern- 

 most point of its range in the British Islands ; but Mr. Kelsall 

 informs us that he has seen a specimen of this Bat which it was 

 stated had been taken in Scotland. The only three species 

 hitherto recognised in Scotland are pipistrellus, auritus, and 

 daubentonii. The Noctule is said to have also occurred, but the 

 evidence is not satisfactory (Zool. 1887. p. 200). 



In Ireland the Whiskered Bat has been identified but once, 

 namely, at Feakle, Co. Clare, by Dr. Kinahan (Proc. Nat. Hist. 

 Soc. Dublin, 1852, and Dublin Nat. Hist. Review, vol. i. p. 248). 



In some parts of North Wales it is said to be not uncommon 

 (Zool. 1887, p. U4). Mr. G. H. Caton Haigh states that it is 



