166 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



The Fallow Deer is included among the Ungulata, though it 

 is known only as a park animal, and there is no evidence to show 

 that it was ever really wild in this county. 



Cetaceans entering the estuaries are frequently left stranded 

 on the vast sand-banks which are exposed at low-water, but it is 

 comparatively seldom that they come under the notice of com- 

 petent naturalists ; and other species than those recorded have 

 probably occurred. 



Order Chiroptera. — Family Rhinolophid^. 

 Rhinolophus hipposideros (Bechst.) ; Lesser Horseshoe Bat. — 

 Byerley has recorded the occurrence of a Lesser Horseshoe Bat 

 at Storeton quarry, near Birkenhead, about the year 1834, but the 

 record rests on the sole authority of a taxidermist named Mather, 

 and requires verification. 



Family Yespertilionid^. 

 Plecotus auritus (L) ; Long-eared Bat. — This species is pro- 

 bably fairly plentiful throughout the county. Byerley describes 

 it as " very common in the district"; Mr. R. Newstead says, 

 "widely distributed throughout the district, but not so common 

 as V. noctula," and adds that he has frequently seen it hawking 

 for flies in broad daylight during the warm days of early spring. 

 It is common in the Mid-Cheshire district, and we have obtained 

 specimens at Bowdon, Sale, Northen Etchells, Wythenshawe, 

 and several times in the copper mines at Alderley Edge. Mr. T. D. 

 Sykes informs us that he has frequently shot it on the Cheshire 

 bank of the Mersey, near Cadishead, and the Rev. H. G. Barnacle 

 states that it is not uncommon at Holmes Chapel. The choice 

 of a diurnal resting-place by this bat is very varied. We have 

 found it between the ceiling and roof of a cottage, in a timber- 

 stack, in a crevice in the bark of a birch-tree, and Mr. A. Salmon, 

 of Bowdon, has taken numbers from holes in beeches in Dunham 

 Park. 



Synotus barbastellus (Schreb.) ; Barbastelle.— There is a female 

 specimen in alcohol in the British Museum labelled " Cheshire," 

 but no further data are given (G. E. Dobson, ■ Cat. Chiroptera in 

 Coll. Brit. Mus.' 1878, p. 177). 



Vesperugo pipistrellus (Schreb.) ; Pipistrelle. — Probably gene- 

 rally distributed and common. Byerley describes it as the " most 



