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the British Museum authorities. Two unlabelled specimens in the 

 Warrington Museum were possibly obtained on this occasion. This 

 species has been taken in winter in the copper-mines at Alderley 

 Edge. One was taken on Dec. 26th, 1892 (C. Oldham, Zool. 1893, 

 p. 103), and another captured on Dec. 15th, 1894. Coward has 

 obtained several specimens from one of the pools in Dunham 

 Park. We have observed it flying over a large horse-pond near 

 Mouldsworth, at the pool in Higher Peover Park, and on the 

 Ellesmere Canal at the point where it is crossed by the Whit- 

 church and Tarporley road. The bats in the last locality were 

 restricted to a small area where the towing-path is overhung by 

 trees, and although search was made, no others were seen on the 

 canal for a mile in either direction. Daubenton's Bat comes 

 abroad about seventy minutes after sunset, and it is difficult to 

 distinguish the bats from their shadows as they skim over the 

 surface of the water. We have not seen this species on the wing 

 later than August 17th, although we paid several visits to the 

 pool in Dunham Park during the latter half of that month and 

 September, 1894, in the hope of finding it. 



V. mystacinus, Leisler ; Whiskered Bat. — Widely distributed. 

 One was found asleep on the top of a stone wall at Fernilee, near 

 Whaley Bridge, on May 30th, 1885 (W. D. Boebuck, ' Naturalist/ 

 1886, p. 1 13), and another was knocked down near the same place 

 at mid-day on April 26th, 1886 (T. A. Coward, Zool. 1888, p. 222). 

 We obtained a specimen which was hawking up and down a 

 hedge-side at dusk, at Northen Etchells, on Sept. 15th, 1888, 

 and another in a similar spot at Mouldsworth, in June, 1894. 

 One which we took from beneath the bark of a dead fir in Dela- 

 mere Forest on August 7th, 1893, is now in the Grosvenor 

 Museum, Chester. We have examined a specimen in the 

 collection of Mr. J. Chappell, of Openshaw, which was caught at 

 Holmes Chapel, and another from Dunham Park, in the posses- 

 sion of Mr. A. Salmon, of Bowdon. From December to March 

 we have repeatedly taken this species in the old mines at Alderley 

 Edge (T. A. Coward, Zool. 1888, p. 222; C. Oldham, Zool. 1893, 

 p. 103). Copper was worked at Alderley in pre-Koman days, 

 but the low galleries running horizontally into the sandstone 

 rock, where we have found the bats, are of much more recent 

 date. A dipterous insect and two moths (Scotosia dubitata and 

 Gonoptera Ubatrix) are frequently found on the walls, and possibly 



