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stations of the present race of Ptarmigan in Scotland, such as in 

 Ai-ran, in Argyle, and the Outer Hebrides, these birds are 

 decreasing and on some i^hices have even become extinct, and 

 that on many of the high inh^nd ranges they are also known to be 

 diminishing in numbers, their extinction on the Scottish and 

 English borders over half a century ago is not surprising. When 

 they were on the mountains of Dumfriesshire and Gallowny there 

 is no improbability, but the reverse, that they were also at the 

 same time native to the Cumbrian mountains. The English hills 

 are within easy sight from all the higher peaks on our ranges ; 

 and there can be no question that the former are high enough, 

 and in other respects suited to be the abodes of these feathered 

 children of the mist. 



THE DISTRIBUTION IN GREAT BRITAIN OF 

 THE LESSER HORSE-SHOE BAT. 



By J. E. Kelsall. 



As a supplement to the editorial remarks on Horse-shoe Bats 

 in 'The Zoologist' for January last, and encouraged by the 

 further observations of Lord Lilford (p. 62), I have collected all 

 the records that I have been able to find of the occurrence of 

 the smaller species, Rhinolophus hifposideros, in Britain, being 

 able, thanks to the kindness of many naturalists, to add a few 

 •which have not before been printed. As the Editor truly 

 remarked, the larger species, R. ferrum-equinum, is found only 

 in the southern and western counties ; its distribution may be 

 summarised as "England south of the Thames (from Kent to 

 Cornwall) and South "Wales." Its Welsh localities have not been 

 mentioned before in ' The Zoologist ' : they are the Mumbles near 

 Swansea, in Glamorganshire ('Field,' Jan. 1, 1881), and the Old 

 Wogan, a partly natural, partly artificial, cave, which adjoins 

 Pembroke Castle, where it has been found by Mr, James Tracy, 

 of Pembroke. In the same article it was stated that the 

 smaller species also was chiefly restricted to the southern 

 counties of England, but the following records will show that 

 its range extends much more to the north and west than that of 

 its congener, and not so far eastward. 



In the south-western corner of England it is frequently met 

 with : for Cornwall I may quote Couch (Zool. 1853, p. 3941). 



