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young one, of the small horse-shoe species, was caught in a bed-room 

 in the house. This evening they are flying to the distance of half a 

 mile from the mansion : evening fine and calm. A gentleman living 

 there informs me, that a few days since he saw bats flying near his 

 window between 2 and 3 o'clock in the morning, when quite dark. 



September 14. Bats common in flight at Looe. I find that horse- 

 shoe bats are common there. Some of them make their homes in an 

 adit of an old attempt at mining at Penrock, near the sea ; but they 

 are not found suspended close together. Four or five were found, not 

 torpid, in the cold weather of a former winter : the weather at that 

 time was cold in the open air, but sensibly warm in the adit. I exa- 

 mined two specimens of Vespertilio Nattereri, and one of V. Pipistrel- 

 lus, caught at Looe. 



September 16. One large bat flew straight and quick over the up- 

 per end of a garden on the side of a steep hill, a little after 7 o'clock, 

 and did not return. Weather calm, fine, feeling rather cold. 



September 17. No bats. Wind S.E., blowing rather strong, with 

 flying showers. 



September 18. One bat seen in the Warren : a very wet day. 



September 19. No bats seen after a short search. 



September 20. At T . Bats, believed to be the horse-shoe spe- 

 cies, flying early in the evening, near the ground, on the sheltered side 

 of the mansion ; none elsewhere. Weather fine, windy ; moonlight. 



September 21. One bat seen hastily : fine evening. 



September 22. No bats : weather very fine. 



September 23. One bat seen in the morning, between 5 and 6 

 o'clock ; and one in the evening, which flew rapidly from the Warren 

 towards a cove in the sea-cliff, and did not return. Weather fine but 

 cool. 



September 24. No bats : fine evening ; bright moonlight. 



September 25. One bat, appearing of larger size, flying high and 

 straight over the tops of trees in a plantation ; afterwards one, proba- 

 bly the same, flying high over the street in large circles. None seen 

 among the houses, where, in summer, the small bats are numerous. 

 Weather fine. 



September 26. One bat, in a glade in the side of a hill. It took 

 long and straight flights, which might have proceeded from the scar- 

 city of prey. Once or twice it flew in among the leaves of an ash-tree, 

 as if seeking something on or among the foliage. I remember once, 

 in broad day-light, to have seen a long-eared bat (Plecotus auritus) 

 come close to where I was standing, and take something from the 

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