194 VESPERTILIONID/E— PLECOTUS 



THE LONG-EARED BAT. 

 PLECOTUS AURITUS (Linnaeus). 



1740. The Double-Eared Bat, Eleazar Albin, A Natural History of Birds, Hi., 95, 



pi. ci, 

 1758. Vespertilio AURITUS, Carolus Linnaeus, Systema Naturce, x., 32 (6) ; xii., 47 (5), 



1766; described from Upsala, Sweden ; Bingley ; Donovan; Jenyns ; Clermont. 

 1789. (?) Vespertilio auribus, Gilbert White, Selbome, Letter xi. to Thos. Pennant, 



9th September 1767 ; named, but' without description, from Selbome, England. 

 1816. (?) Macrotus europ^US, W. E. l^^z.^. Systematic Catalogue of the Specimens 



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



etc. (London), i ; named, but without description, from Devonshire, England, from 



Montagu's specimens. 

 1818. Plecotus AURITUS, i^tienne Geoffroy, Description des Mammifires qui se 



trouvent en igypte, ii., 118, pi. ii., No. 3 ; Fleming ; Bell (ed. i) ; MacGillivray ; 



Blasius ; Fatio ; Dobson ; Blanford ; Flower and Lydekker ; Lydekker ; Thomas ; 



Mdhely ; Johnston ; Cabrera ; Millais ; Trouessart (1910). 



1825. Vespertilio OTUS, Friedrich Boie, Oken's IsisQena), ii., 11, 1206; described 

 from Copenhagen, Denmark. 



1826. Vespertilio cornutus, Faber, Journ. cit., i., 5, 515 ; described from 



Horsens, Jutland, Denmark. 



1827. Plecotus communis, R. P. Lesson, Manuel de Mammalogie, 95, No. 232. 



1827. Plecotus cornutus, auct. etop. cit., 96, No. 234. 



1828. Plecotus brevimanus, Leonard Jenyns, Trans. Linnean Soc. (London), xvi., 

 55, pi. i., fig. 2 ; described from an immature specimen from Grunty Fen, Isle of Ely, 

 England ; not P. brevimanus of Bonaparte, 1841 ; Bell, eds. l and 2 (figures). 



1829. Plecotus vulgaris, A. G. Desmarest, Faune Franqais, Mammiflres, 

 livr. 19, 18 ; pi. 2, livr. 16, fig. 3, described from France. 



1829. Vespertilio brevimanus, J. B. Fischer, Synopsis Mammalium, 118 and 553. 

 1832. P. PERONII, Isidore Geoffroy, Guerin's Magasin de Zoologie, ii., Classe I., 



No. 2, pi. iii., fig. I ; described from a male and female obtained, locality unknown, 



during the voyage of P^ron and Lesueur. 

 i860. Plecotus kirschbaumii, Carl Koch, Achter Bericht der Oberhessischen 



Gesellschaft fiir Natur- und Heilkunde, 40 ; described from Oberhessen, Germany. 

 1862-63. Plecotus auritus, typus, montanus et brevipes, Carl Koch, Jahrbikher 



des Vereins fiir Naturkunde im Herzogthum (Nassau), 406-408 ; described from 



Nassau, Germany. 

 1873. Plecotus LEUCOPHjEUS, N. A. Syevertzoff, Trans. Soc. Nat. Moscow, viii., 2 ; 



translated by Craemer in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist, July 1876, 42 : named, without 



description, from north-western Turkestan. 



LOreillard'^ of the French, die langbhrige Fledermaus of the Germans. 



Distribution: — The Long-eared Bat ranges throughout boreal and 

 transitional into tropical Europe and Asia, from sea-level to about 

 6500 feet in the Caucasus (Satunin); from 60° N. latitude in 

 Skandinavia and Russia (Blasius) to north Africa, including Tunis ^ 



1 Homed Bat, of Cheshire (Coward and Oldham) ; see also under Pipistrelle, 

 p. 105. ^ Specimens seen. 



