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DAUBENTON’S BAT 
ADDED TO THE YORKSHIRE FAUNA. 
WM. EAGLE CLARKE, F.L.S., 
Natural History Department, Museum of Science and Art, Edinburgh; etc. 
At last this local but widely-distributed Bat (Vespertilio daubentonit) 
has been detected in Yorkshire. That it would sooner or later be 
recorded for the county has been regarded as a matter almost of 
certainty by those interested in the distribution of the British 
Mammalia, to whom the absence of this species from an area of such 
magnitude and diversity of aspect has always seemed to be little less 
than an impossibility. These opinions are now happily confirmed, 
and the species appears to be not uncommon in at least one district 
of North-West Yorkshire. The example which I had the pleasure 
of identifying was forwarded to me for that purpose by my friend 
Mr. Basil Carter, to whom belongs the credit of obtaining the first 
Yorkshire example. The specimen, a male, was shot as it was 
flitting over the river Yore at Masham, on the roth of August last, 
at 8.30 p.m. It appeared to be accompanied by several others of 
the same species, and these, attracted by the squeaks of the captive, 
flew quite closely around as he took it from the water into which it 
had fallen. Mr. James Carter writes me that he has often watched 
similar Bats flying over the surface of the Yore, but always failed in 
his efforts to secure a specimen of what he felt sure was 7. daubentonit. 
Is Dr. Dobson’s description of the tragus as given in his excellent 
Catalogue of the Cheiroptera, p. 297, wherein it is said to terminate 
‘in an acute point,’ correct? I have examined a number of perfectly 
fresh examples this year, and I find that this organ, though it tapers 
considerably, is decidedly rounded at its distal extremity ; and that 
such is the case is well-shown in the enlarged figure of the ear of this 
Species given by Blasius in his ‘Fauna der Wirbelthiere Deutschlands,’ 
Saugethiere, p. 99. 
Me Of UNG. 
Geaster hygrometricus Fr. in Wharfedale.—As this fungus d 
Seem to have been peeled for West st Yorkshire ap x time oe Bolton pettos 
it may interest the a of ‘The Naturalist’ to w that I came across three 
Specimens on Rombalds Moor on the evening of the sind of A ngust. The plants 
were very old ary dry, but I sent them to Dr. Cooke, who kindly identified them - 
so vty, BP hooes ‘ earth-stars,’ de they. are popularly called, are interesting, not 
count of their extreme rarity, but also for their curious structure an 
“sacanwagn properties, Percy H. GrimsHaw, Burley-in-Wharfedale 
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