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Fishes, both indigenous and exotic, supplying information when it was 
most needed in volumes which must for a long time to come remain 
standard works of reference. 
MAMMALIA. 
Distribution of Daubenton’s Bat in Britain.—To the summary of 
records of this species given in ‘ The Zoologist’ for May last (pp. 161, 162), 
one or two other instances of its occurrence might be added, so that this 
volume may contain about as much as is known on the subject. There is a 
specimen from Devonshire in the British Museum (vide Dobson’s Catalogue 
of the Chiroptera). It doubtless occurs on the Isis between Oxfordshire 
and Berkshire, for in some notes by the late Mr. H. Norton in the 
‘Midland Naturalist’ for 1883, the Whiskered Bat is described as flying 
low over the water there in large numbers—a description which can only 
apply to this species, the author being well acquainted with the Pipistrelle 
and Noctule. Mr. W. Jeffery, of Ratham, has shown me a specimen of 
this bat which was taken in Surrey, and there is perhaps no harm in 
referring to records so recent as those for Leicestershire (Zool. 1885, p. 216), 
Lincolnshire (Zool. 1887, p. 143), and Merioneth (tom. cit. p. 346). I have 
a specimen taken at Hereford last year. Garner records it for Staffordshire, 
Sir Oswald Mosley for Derbyshire (Nat. Hist. Tutbury), and Mr. Jenkinson 
for Worcestershire (Zool. 1857, p. 5661). Lastly, in ‘ Science Gossip’ for 
1885, is an account of a specimen taken in Renfrewshire, which devoured 
tinned fish in captivity—J. E. Kensatt (Fareham, Hants). 
Distribution of Natterer’s Bat in Britain.—It may be convenient 
to collect here some records of this bat which were overlooked in the 
preparation of the list given in the last number of ‘The Zoologist’ (pp. 242— 
248). Its occurrence in Devonshire was noted in ‘ The Field’ for 1874 in 
Mr. Newman’s “Collected Observations on British Bats,” and at Sawtry, 
in Huntingdonshire, in ‘ The Zoologist’ for 1843. The specimen procured 
at Godstow (Berks), referred to on p. 246, is in the Oxford University 
Museum, and was formerly labelled as V. Bechsteinii (Zool. 1884, p. 483). 
This mistake was excusable on the part of its captor, the late Mr. H. Norton 
(who was not book-learned on the subject, though a keen observer), for he 
would have found the rarer species described in Bell’s ‘ British Quadrupeds,’ 
and its characteristics are mostly those of V. Natterert somewhat exaggerated. 
The same observer should have the credit of finding Natterer’s Bat at 
Begbroke Church, Oxfordshire. He described it under some fantastic name 
as occurring there, and there is a drawing of it in his MS. notes, which 
were kindly shown to me by Mr. A. H. Macpherson, and are now in the 
hands of Prof. Westwood, of Oxford. I visited this church on May 28th, 
1885, and found a specimen of Natterer’s Bat dead in the belfry, and heard 
others squeaking in a hole out of reach. He wrote that they “ issued from 
