867 A. E. Verrill— The Bermuda Islands. 455 
Jn the rain record of 17 years the nearest approach to this quantity 
was in October, 1874, when the fall amounted to 16.50 inches. With 
that exception we have not, within the above period, ever registered 
as much as 12 inches in one month, except in November last, when 
the quantity marked was 12.48 inches. 
Locality of Gauge. Total Rainfall. 
nospecn Observatory sea 2 su saa Sa 18.21 inches. 
Station Hospital, Prospect .....-.----- Same return. 
Puble Grounds, Hamilton. 22. 2.-= .--- 17.05 inches. 
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Government House, Mount Langton --. 18.05 “ 
Cabs Halls aichthouseleess45- s2sc= Opa 
Meucer. Place, Somerset ...-..-.---.--- LEIS Chmencc 
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‘The differences in the records are very remarkable over and above 
the fact that the average fall shows higher than any previous regis- 
ter during one month. The greatest amount registered during one 
day (24 hours) was on the 30th of the month: and the several 
returns for that day give the following widely varying results :— 
Prospect, 4.42; Hamilton, 1.19; Mount Langton, 1.64; Clermont, 1.67; 
Gibbs Hill, 1.54 ; Somerset, 3.6 ; Boaz, 6.35 (?); St. George’s, 1.96. 
Between the Ist and the 15th of the month the records vary from 
2 inches (Mount Langton) 1.18 (Hamilton) 1.63 (Clermont) .51 
(Gibbs’ Hill) .90 (Boaz) .58 (St. Georges) to nil at Prospect and 
Somerset. At Clermont 3.15 was registered on the 28th against 3.02 
at Hamilton and 1.90 at Mount Langton. At Prospect 2.50 was 
recorded on the 25th against only a very small amount in other. 
localities. The average of the 8 registers taken shows a fall for the 
month of 15.60 inches.” CavenvisH Boyiz, Reg. Geni. 
Registrar General’s Office, Hamilton, Aug. 12, 1886. 
Bats, p. 718. Add the following : 
Two additional species of bats are recorded as from Bermuda, by 
Dobson. (Catal. of Cheir. in British Museum, 1878 ; see also Heil- 
prin, Bermuda Is., p. 80.) But it seems to me more probable that the 
locality labels were erroneous, or that these bats were brought to 
Bermuda from the West Indies, after preservation, for no other 
examples have been observed. ‘They are as follows : 
Vampyre-bat (Zrachyops cirrhosus). West Indies and South 
America. 
