DISTRIBUTION OF THE LESSER HOESE-SIIOE BAT. 91 



[Staflfordsliire. — The Lesser Horse-shoe Bat is not mentioned 

 by Garner in his * Nat. Hist, of the Co. Stafford,' but Mr. J. E. 

 Masefield, in a paper on ' The existing Indigenous Mammalia of 

 North Staffordshire,' includes it as occurring near Burton, on the 

 authority of Mr. Edwin Brown. — Ed.] 



It is remarkable that these counties appear to form the south- 

 eastern limit of this Bat in England. On the Hampshire 

 mainland ten other species have been met with, in Sussex nine, 

 not counting Mr. Borrer's specimens of the Serotine (Zool. 1874, 

 p. 4126), in Kent eight, and the same number in Essex (where 

 Mr. Laver is well acquainted with seven) ; and yet neither 

 Mr. Bond, Mr. Borrer, Mr. Laver, Mr. Kope, nor Mr. Southwell 

 seem to have met with R. hipposideros in any district to the 

 south-east of those I have named ; indeed, Mr. Laver, in his 

 "List of the Mammals of Essex" ('Trans. Essex Field Club,' 

 vol. ii. p. 162), states that he does not believe either species of 

 Horse-shoe Bat occurs in the district, which is strong negative 

 evidence, considering the large number of Bats which have 

 passed through his hands. I should be glad if any reader of 

 ' The Zoologist ' could suggest a reason for its absence from the 

 south-east corner of England : it can scarcely be for want of 

 natural caverns, since it has often been taken in buildings. 

 Leisler's Bat, an arboreal species, appears to be similarly 

 restricted in its range. 



But passing to the north and west we find distinct, if 

 fragmentary, evidence of a much wider range than that of the 

 larger species. 



Wales is mentioned as a habitat in Jenyns' ' Manual of 

 British Vertebrates,' although, as the author informs me, he 

 does not now remember from what county he heard of it ; but 

 Mr. Storrie, of the Cardiff Museum, tells me that he has found 

 it near Bridgend, Glamorganshire ; and Mr. Tracy, of Pembroke, 

 states that he has frequently taken it at Stackpoole, Pembroke- 

 shire. A more vague report from Denbighshire I have yet to 

 investigate. [Donovan found a living specimen of this Bat 

 amongst the ivy overhanging the mouldering battlements of 

 Eaglan Castle, Monmouthshire (Brit. Quadrupeds, pi. ii.). — Ed.] 



In Herefordshire it has been taken over the kitchens at 

 Sufton Court, as recorded by Mr. E. M. Lingwood (Ann. & Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. 1840, p. 185). 



