58 VESPERTILIONID^— NYCTALUS 



THE NOCTULE, OR GREAT BAT 



NYCTALUS NOCTULA (Schreber). 



1760. La Noctule, L. J. M. Daubenton in E. L. le Clerc, Comte de Buffon's Histoire 

 Naturelle, viii., 128-129, 135-1371 p'- xviii., fig. I ; also Mem. de I'Acad. Roy. des 

 Sci., 380, pi. ii. (15), fig. I, 1759, published 1765 ; described from France. 



1775. Vespertilio NOCTULA, J. C. D. von Schreber, Die Sdugthiere, i., pi. lii., 

 166-167, evidently naming Daubenton's La Noctule; Bingley ; Pennant ; Donovan ; 

 Fleming ; Jenyns ; Bell (ed. i) ; Clermont ; Newman. 



1776. Vespertilio lardarius, P. L. S. Miiller, Natursy stems Supplements und 

 Register Band, 15, naming Schreber's Speckmaus, i.e. V. NOCTULA, as above. 



1776. Great Bat, Thomas Pennant, British Zoology (ed. 4), i., 128, pi. xiii.. No. 38. 



1789. Vespertilio altivolans, Gilbert White, Selbome, letter xxxvi. to Thomas 



Pennant, September 1771 ; described from Selbome, England. 

 1789. Vespertilio magnus, John Berkenhout, Synopsis of the Natural History of 



Great Britain and Ireland, ii., naming Pennant's Great Bat. 

 1806. Vespertilio serotinus, Isidore Geoffroy, Ann. du Mus. d'Hist. Nat, viii., 



194, pi. 46, fig. I ; transference of name in error. 

 [18 12. Vespertilio auriculatus, John Walker, Essays on Natural History, 



472 ; described from Edinburgh, Scotland, but only doubtfully referable to 



N. noctula.l 



1816. Vespertilio major, W. E. Leach, Systematic Catalogue of the Specimens of the 

 Indigenous Mammalia and Birds that are Preserved in the British Museum, etc. 

 (London), 5 ; renaming V. noctula, but without description. 



18 19. Vespertilio proterus, Heinrich Kuhl, Ann. der Wetterauische Gesellschaft 

 fiir die gesammte Naturkunde, iv., 41 ; renaming Daubenton's La Noctule. 



1826. Vespertilio laicopterus, J. E, Gray, Zoological fournal, ii., 109 ; included 

 as a synonym of Vespertilio noctula j perhaps a misprint for lasiopterus. 



1827. Vespertilio ferrugineus, C. L. Brehm, Ornis (Jena), iii., 26; described 

 from Jena, Germany. 



1829. Pterygistes proterus, Jakob Kaup, System der Europdischen Thierwelt, 

 i., 100. 



1838. Scotophilus noctula, J. E. Gray, Mag. Zool. and Bot, 497 ; MacGillivray, 

 Bell (ed. 2). 



1839. Vesperugo noctula, a. Graf von Keyserling and J. H. Blasius, Wiegmann's 

 Archiv fUr Naturgeschichte, i., 317 ; Blasius ; Fatio ; Dobson ; Harting, Zoologist, 

 1887, pi. iii., 167-171 ; Blanford; Woodward and Sherborn ; Lydekker ; Millais, 

 pi. vii. 



1842. Noctulinia proterus, J. E. Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist, Dec, 258. 



1845. Noctulinia noctula, Edward Blyth, yo«r«. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, xiv., ^o ; 

 referring to T. Button's Mussooree specimens (see Proc. Zool. Soc, London, 1872, 

 707) ; T. C. Jerdon, Mammals of India, 36, 1867 ; Harrison Allen, Proc. U.S. 

 National Museum, xvi., 30, footnote, 1893 (diagnosis of genus). 



1856. Panugo noctula, F. a. Kolenati, Allgemeine deutsche Naturhist Zeitung 

 (Dresden), Neue Folge, ii., 131, 172-174. 



