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Sorex minutus. The Lesser or Pygmy Shrew. 



(Rather rare in Northern England. Found all over Scotland, 

 including the Hebrides, and abundantly in Ireland.) 

 Crossopus fodiens. The Water Shrew. 



(Common throughout England and Wales. Rare in Scotland, 

 but extends its range to the extreme north. Not found in 

 the Hebrides or the Scotch islands, and absent from Ireland.) 



Order, CHEIROPTERA. The BATS. 



Sub-Order, MICROCHEIROPTERA. INSECT-EATING BATS. 

 Family, VESPERTILIONIDM. The TYPICAL BATS.i 

 Vespertilio serotinus. The Serotine Bat. 

 (Distribution confined to a small portion of the south-east of 

 England, where it is not uncommon.) 

 Vespertilio murinus (discolor). The Parti-coloured Bat. 

 (A doubtful British species. Only one example obtained, at 

 Plymouth.) 

 Pterygistes noctula. The Great Bat, or Noctnle. 



(Found in England and north-east of Ireland, but not as yet 

 met with in Wales or Scotland.) 

 Pterygistes leisleri. The Hairy-armed Bat. 



(Found in England and north-east of Ireland. Not met with 

 in Wales or Scotland.) 

 Pipistrellus pipistrellus. The Common Bat, or Pipistrelle. 

 (Universally distributed over the British Islands, including the 

 Hebrides and the Isle of Man.) 

 Myotis dasycneme. The Rough-legged Bat. 



(Very rare. An occasional visitor to the south of England.) 

 Myotis daubentoni. Daubenton's Bat. 



(England, possibly Wales, the south and east of Scotland, the 

 north and east of Ireland.) 

 Myotis nattereri. The Reddish-gray Bat. 



(England and Wales, the west of Scotland, and most parts of 

 Ireland.) 

 Myotis bechsteini. Bechstein's Bat. 



(Very rare as a British species. Only known specimens captured 

 a hundred years ago in the New Forest, and in 1902 at 

 Henley-on-Thames and in Sussex.) 



' The nomenclature of the bats — British and European — of the family Vespertilionidce 

 has been much altered recently — since 1898. The former genus, Vesperugo, has been 

 divided into the genera Vespertilio, Pterygistes, and Pipistrellus, Vespertilio replacing 

 Vesperugo by a somewhat fanatical adhesion to the principal of priority (Linnaeus first 

 applied that name to the parti -coloured bat). The old Vespertilio of the latter half of 

 the nineteenth century is replaced by the still older term Myotis. 



