“Grabham: ae Bats. 
i ve in the direction of the jaws, a semicircle with hardly any 
verlapping; in V. moctula they are crowded and parallel, set 
Paiisiualy. and largely overlap one another.’ 
In 1881 Mr. Roebuck had some correspondence with 
Mr. Frederick Bond on the subject of this record. Mr. Bon 
wrote under date 17th May of that year as follows:—‘ About 4o 
years ago I paid a visit to Leeds and amused myself collecting 
insects, when I saw in the possession of a working man who also 
collected insects for his own amusement 3 specimens of the Bat, 
all injured by the larva of a Beetle, Dermestes sp. Only one was 
fit to keep, which was kindly given to me; he told me he took 
them from an old factory chimney shaft. a few months before I saw 
them, I think at Hunslet. The two specimens that I did not have 
were so badly injured by the Dermestes larva that they were 
worthless. In 1874 I received two fine ? specimens from 
anderagee, Co. Armagh. They were taken from hollow beth 
P- 3295 is 
“a harbonnier, who Seagate several shot near Mexborough, 
but the Editor Rag diners that they thy 3 have been confused with 
young Noctul 
espe. ks pipistrellus. Pipistrelle or Small Bat. 
Is hie: smallest of our British Bats, and the commonest. 
Throughout the county it is universally distributed. In mild 
year, and I have frequently seen it abroad at midday. It is 
very fond of hawking at night in any ‘sheltered place, farm- 
yards, etc., and it rests in any convenient crevice. It varies 
much in colour, as most Bats do, some specimens being very 
_ dark. It is easily tamed and lives well in ca tivity 
though I have examined many specimens of this Bat, I can 
distinguish very little red about them. However, as I said 
, above, Bats vary greatly i in colour, and the food, surroundings, 
that the same species from widely-different localities may be 
in the county. essrs. Clarke and Roebuck record two as 
oe been taken from a tree in Oakwell Wood, Birstal. 
Naturalist, 
of the same tooth at its base. The lower incisors in V. dezslert 
seasons it is on the wing almost uninterruptedly throughout the’ 
. Vespertilio nattereri. Natterer’s or the Reddish- — 
Grey Bat. The latter term is to my mind a misnomer, as, — 
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very rae coloured. his Bat is either rare or overlooked 
