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the church and spread themselves into the adjoining trees,” and that they 
were so delicate as generally to be killed by the stroke of his butterfly-net, 
so that he only procured one alive; but perhaps these were only the young. 
Mr. F. Bond has written me word of its occurrence in Gloucestershire, 
The Kildare (Tankardstown) record is a mistake; see Dublin Nat. Hist. 
Review, vol. vi. 1859. The bats taken there proved to be V. Daubentonii, 
which (as the Editor remarks on p. 162) is our most aquatic species, not 
the Barbastelle (p. 242, note).—J. KE. Kersaun (Fareham, Hants). 
[Mr. Kelsall is right. For “ Barbastelle” (p. 242, note), read 
“Daubenion’s Bat,” whose aquatic habits were commented on in the 
article on the latter species (pp. 162, 163). When noticing the occurrence 
of Natterer’s Bat in Hampshire (p. 246) we unintentionally omitted to 
state that Mr. Edward Hart had found it to be not uncommon at Christ- 
church, whence some months ago he was good enough to forward a living 
example, from which Mr. Lodge’s figure of the species was drawn for our 
last number (Pl. III). Mr. H. A. Macpherson reminds us that Cumberland 
need not have been omitted from the list of counties in which this bat 
has been found, inasmuch as its occurrence there has been recorded by 
him in the ‘ Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmoreland Nat. Hist. 
Assoc.’ for 1887 (p. 43). It is there stated that early in August, 1886, a 
colony of Natterer’s Bat was discovered by Mr. A. Smith in an outhouse at 
the Gasworks at Castletown, a few miles from Carlisle, whence three living 
specimens were forwarded to Mr. Macpherson, one of which escaping in a 
room afforded him an opprrtunity of making some observations on its 
powers of flight, which he described as graceful and buoyant. Mr. Duck- 
worth afterwards saw one which had strayed into a room at Castletown, 
and was probably one of those previously evicted from the outhouse already 
referred to, whence others were subsequently procured.—Ep.] 
BIRDS. 
Stock Dove nesting in Co. Antrim.—On April 80th last I discovered 
the nest of a Wild Pigeon in a secluded part of Lord Massereene’s demesne 
not very far from the town of Antrim. The nest, which consisted of a few 
twigs, and fronds of the oak polypod fern, was placed on the earth in a hole 
in the fringe of a water-worn bank. It contained two fresh eggs, much 
smaller and more oval in shape than the eggs of the Ring Dove, Columba 
palumbus. I concluded they were the eggs of the Stock Dove, C. enas, 
and, as this bird is of very rare occurrence in Ireland, I drew attention to 
the matter in one of our local papers. In reply I received a letter from 
Mr. R. Lloyd Patterson, Secretary of the Belfast Naturalists’ Field Club, 
suggesting that I should forward the eggs for identification to London. This 
was accordingly done, and one of the eggs in question was, I understand, 
submitted by him to you and to Mr. Grant, of the Natural History 
