

THE ZOOLOGIST. 



THIRD SERIES. 



Vol. XIL] DECEMBEB, 188 8. [No. 144. 



THE WHISKERED BAT, VESPERTILIO MYST ACINUS. 



By the Editor. 



Plate III. 



In 'The Zoologist' for May last we gave an account of this 

 bat, perhaps the fullest account of it as a British species that 

 has yet appeared. It had the good effect of eliciting further 

 particulars of its occurrence in a locality not previously noted, 

 and in fresh localities in a county where it had already been 

 observed. Thus Mr. T. A. Coward (p. 222) reported it from 

 Cheshire, and Mr. E. W. H. Blagg (p. 260) from Staffordshire. 



When Bell wrote his account of this species (Brit. Quadrupeds, 

 1837, 2nd ed. 1874), it was evidently considered to be a rare bat 

 in the British Islands ; but since greater attention has been 

 bestowed upon this order of mammals, its occurrence in about 

 fifteen English counties, chiefly in the South, as well as in 

 Wales, and in Ireland (once), shows that it is much more 

 widely distributed than was at one time supposed. 



Confirmation of its alleged occurrence in Scotland (p. 165) 

 would be desirable, and further search might be made for it in 

 Ireland, where, so far as we know at present, it has been met 

 with only in the County Clare. 



We are indebted to Mr. E. Hart, of Christchurch, Hants, for 

 a freshly-caught specimen procured in that neighbourhood in 

 April last, from which Mr. G. E . Lodge made a careful drawing, 

 here capitally reproduced by Mr. Llewellyn Hutchinson. 



ZOOLOGIST.— DEC. 1888. A 2M 



