270 BOLAM : DAUBENTON’S BAT IN NORTHUMBERLAND. 
so far as the northmost county is concerned, I cannot find that 
this list has been increased, either as to the number of individuals 
or species. The Long-eared Bat and the Pipistrelle are set down 
as ‘common and generally distributed in both counties,’ while the 
the name of V. emarginatus. The claim of that species to 
be considered a native of these islands is somewhat doubtful. 
(A. N. H. (1854) xiii.) 
‘A single specimen of the Notch-eared Bat was caught at 
Long Benton, two’ years ago, and was taken to Mr. T. J. Bold, 
by whom it was carefully examined and compared with the 
figures and descriptions of Bell and McGillivray. It was, 
unfortunately, not preserved. Its ears were very large, their 
length considerably exceeding that of the head.’ 
The knowledge of our local species being thus so extremely 
‘scanty, any iabraauaen regarding their distribution is valuable, 
and it is much to be desired that any bats that may be captured 
should be taken care of, and submitted to a competent authority 
for identification. I had not myself given any special attention 
to the subject, but for some years past whenever a specimen was 
procured (more often by accident than design), it was preserved 
and carefully put aside with a note of its capture, and: a short 
time ago the collection, numbering only half a dozen individuals, 
was forwarded to Mr. William Denison Roebuck, who had kindly 
volunteered to name them for me. The result is so far satisfactory , 
that, although the number of species may not have been added to, 
V. daubentonii may be recorded as bein ng, at any rate, far from rare 
in the north-eastern parts of Northumberland, and on the borders. 
Out of the six specimens, three are pronounced to belong to this 
“species, the remainder -being only the common Pipistrelle. Of the 
former, one was knocked down by my fishing-rod near the bridge 
-over the Till, at Weetwood, about the year 1875; the two others 
were kept as specimens out of a lot of fifteen, which were brought 
-home by my young brothers from a birds-nesting expedition, in the 
-beginning of June 1880. 
At Weetwood, which is in the parish of Chatton, in North 
Nortumberiand: V. daubentonii must be fa irly common, for 
I distinctly remember that most of the several bats which were 
killed or ca i the. 
illes ptured there during the ‘seventies’ were similar to ™ : 
Naturalist, ae 
