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In Vigo, the bat was visible after the candles had been extinguished. 

 The nximbers found congregated together in the one place in Edenvale 

 and Ballyallia caves show that solitude is not the constant habit of the 

 bat. They certainly shift their quarters during their hibernation. In the 

 third cave examined at Edenvale I found recent traces of the bats in 

 several places in which the bats were absent, and the two females cap- 

 tured at Yigo had not been where we found them at oiu' previous visit. 

 It is possible that they find food during these partial awakenings in the 

 moths, gnats, and spiders met with in nearly every cave in company 

 with them. It will be recollected that at a previous visit of mine to 

 Ballyallia cave, in August, 1859, I could not find any traces of the bats, 

 although Mr. Foot foixnd them there the March previous. This, coupled 

 with our finding them so abundant on our present visit, shows that the 

 surmise as to the animal's change of habitat in summer is correct. I am 

 thus particular about the habits of the animal, because so little is known 

 of them. 



Of the specimens captured I brought several home, and placed them 

 under a box ; they lived with me for eight days, and, although they re- 

 fused to eat, soon accommodated themselves to their quarters. One, 

 which escaped, gave me a favourable opportunity of judging of their 

 skill in avoiding objects about the room, and also in rising from flat sur- 

 faces. They used to scramble and fight a good deal at night, but were 

 quiet during the day. On several of them I found specimens of a large 

 and disgusting-looking tick. The great proportion of them were fully 

 grown, only about a tenth of them being immature ; these difi'eredinno 

 respect from the others, except in lightness of colour, and the character of 

 their dentition. 



Addendum. — In subsequent communications of Mr. Foot's, dated 

 January, 1862, he records two other stations for this bat, viz. a cave 

 near Glenallia, about eight miles j!^. I^. E. of Vigo ; and at Glancrawne 

 cave, near Castletown. These much extend the range of the species in 

 this district, and afford further proofs of Mr. Foot's statement, that this 

 is the characteristic bat of the county of Clare. 



NOTES ON THE MAEINE FAUNA OF THE COAST OF CLAEE. BY JOHN EOBEET 

 KINAHAN, F. L. S., M. E. I. A. 



[Read June 21, 1861.] 



In submitting to your meeting some remarks which suggest themselves 

 on examination into the results of a few days' researches, last March, on 

 the north-western coast of Clare, I do not profess to bring before the 

 meeting any startlingly new facts, nor even very detailed investigations 

 in the places examined, although probably some points to be treated of 

 will prove of value as regards the distribution of certain of the species 

 recorded, concerning which infoiination as to detail is yet lacking in our 

 published works ; and all will, I hope, be found tending to what must 



