CONTENTS OF PART I. 



FAOES 



General Introduction to Bats . . . .1-8 



( To he completed in forty-eight pages.) 



Pages 1-48 assembled in muiiericai order at front of voltune 

 Vespertilionid^ ....... 49 



Genus Nyctalus .... .52 



The Noctule, or Great Bat . . . . 58 



Leisler's Bat . . .83 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



Dormouse. {Coloured!) 



Noctule Bats. 



Heads of — (i) Nyctalus noctula, (2) Nyctalus leisleri, and (3) Vespettilio 

 serotinus. 



Nyctalus leisleri — (i) adult, and (2) Nyctalus noctula, recently born, to 

 show the relative difference in size, especially of foot and thumb. 



Wings of— (i) Nyctalus leisleri, (2) Pipistrellus pipistrellus, and (3) Myotis 

 daubeutoni. 



