THE ZOOLOGIST 



FOR 1854. 



Some further Remarks on the Habits of Bats. 

 By Jonathan Couch, Esq., F.L.S., &c. 



As a preliminary to the continuance of my journal of the habits of 

 bats in Cornwall (Zool. 3936), I beg to remark, in reply to a question 

 of the Editor relative to the authenticity of the so-called specimen of 

 Vespertilio emarginatus, that it closely resembled a drawing and 

 description of one that was so denominated by a good authority, my 

 friend W. S. Cocks, Esq., of Falmouth, and published in the first 

 volume of a periodical named the * Naturalist,' for November, 1851. 

 Mr. Cocks's figure, and the specimen I examined, may well be called 

 the " notch -eared bat," as this configuration is remarkable in them, 

 and differs from this part in any other kind of bat with which I am 

 acquainted. 



1853. 



June 5. One bat only seen after 9 o'clock, for a moment : weather 

 calm and overcast. 



June 6. Bats locally abundant, in three situations distant from 

 each other ; but they are not widely dispersed : showers through the 

 day ; overcast and threatening : wet in the evening. A coast-guard- 

 man informs me that he has seen bats in flight at 12 o'clock at 

 night. 



July 1. A showery day. Bats plentiful at 10 o'clock at night : a 

 coast-guard-man informs me he has seen them at 2 o'clock in the 

 morning ; and consequently they have been on flight all night. I 

 find them making much dirt by throwing down their excrements in 



the chancel of T church ; although I cannot find how they are 



able to get into it, or to fly out. All they eat must be on the wing, in 

 this and most if not all others of their retreats. 



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