144 VESPERTILIONID^— MYOTIS 



1855. Vespertilio daubentonii, var. emarginatus, G. B. Buckton, Proc. Linnean 

 Soc. (London), 6th Dec. 1853, 260. 



1856. Brachyotus daubentonii, F. a. Kolenati, Allgemeine deutsche Naturhist. 

 Zeitung {T)r^s.ditn), Neue Folge, ii., 131, 175-176. 



1887. Myotis ciliata,! J. Daday, Ertekezdsek a Termdszettudomdnyok Korebola 

 (Budapest), xvi., 7, 35, 1886 ; not Vespertilio ciliatus of Blasius, vide Mehely, 330. 



1898. Myotis daubentoni, Oldfield Thomas, Zoologist, 100 ; CoUett ; Johnston ; 

 Mehely ; Cabrera ; Millais. 



1910. Myotis (leuconoe) daubentoni, E.-L. Trouessart, Faune des Mammifires 

 d'Europe, 27. 



Die Wasserflederrnaus of German writers, a book-name merely, 

 there being probably no local names for the lesser-known small bats 

 either in Britain or elsewhere. 



Distribution: — This Water Bat, or very close allies, attains a 

 comparatively northern latitude throughout boreal and transitional 

 Europe and Asia, ranging from south Sweden and Norway (Collett), 

 Finland, and middle Russia, to Sardinia, Sicily, and Galilee (Tristram) ; 

 and from Ireland to the Altai, and south to Tenasserim (Dobson). 

 It reaches at least 2000 feet in the Hartz Mountains, and 4000 feet in 

 the Alps. It is not mentioned by Cabrera as occurring in Spain. 



It is probably an abundant species in every part of Sngland and 

 Wales, affording suitable combinations of water and woods. There 

 exist reliable records of its occurrence in every county of England 

 except Wiltshire, Somerset, Gloucester, Buckingham (doubtfully), 

 Huntingdon, Rutland, Nottingham ; but, inasmuch as each of these 

 counties is bordered by others in which the bat is well known, there 

 can be little doubt that it will be found in all of them. It ascends to 

 at least 1000 feet, having been observed by Oldham in the ornamental 

 gardens at Buxton, Derbyshire, at that elevation. Its presence in 

 Wight, long ago reported by Bury (see More, Zoologist, 1894, 148), is 

 now confirmed by Wadham. 



In Wales it is definitely known only from Carnarvon, Denbigh, 

 Flint, Merioneth and Montgomery (Forrest). But it is common in 

 several at least of its known haunts, and since the discovery of these is 

 chiefly due to the recent work of Caton Haigh, Oldham, and Forrest, no 

 doubt further exploration will reveal its presence in the remaining 

 counties. 



In Scotland it is reported from the mainland as widely distributed, 

 although local (Alston), and it occurs at least as far north as Fochabers, 

 in Banff, whence a colony was reported in 1892 (Eagle Clarke, 

 Ann. Scott. Nat. Hist., 1892, 266). In parts of Aberdeen Sim found it 



' Vespertilio capucinellus and Vespertilio minutillus are cited under this species 

 as of " Koch, Bayr. Fauna," but I cannot find the original reference ; see Fitzinger, 

 Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Acad, der Wissenschaften (Vienna), Ixiii., i, 206. 



