4 1 53 Quadrupeds. 



July 5. A damp and misty evening has not prevented the bats from 

 appearing. 



August 4. Two Pipestrelle bats found dead in T church ; 



their wings spread 85- inches. On dissection, the back-bone and ribs 

 were found crushed : I can only suppose that this was done by 

 an owl ; but how they can have escaped afterwards and entered 

 the church, where no crevice appears, is hard to be understood. 



Long-eared bat, a specimen found dead in the Methodist Meeting- 

 house at Polperro ; and on dissection, the vertebrae are found to 

 be crushed, as in the other two bats. No owl can have done it in this 

 chapel, and it is difficult to suppose that a bat can fly far after 

 its vertebrae are crushed in such a manner. Neither can the injury 



have been inflicted by a cat, at least in T- church. There was no 



external mark of injury in these bats. 



August 24. A large bat, probably the larger horse-shoe species, 

 flying in the hall and principal staircase at T . Perhaps this en- 

 trance into the mansion, so early in autumn, has a connexion with 

 the weather ; which, after being fine for a week, has become gloomy, 

 with wind, and ending in a boisterous succession of days. 



August 30. A bat flying in the drawing-room at T ■ ; to which 



place it had obtained access by passing through a dark and crooked 

 passage : weather, heavy showers. I afterwards found, between the 

 showers, a bat flying at near a quarter of a mile from any place where 

 its resort could be. 



There is in the church at T an iron helmet, fixed on a support 



at some distance from the wall, and at a lofty elevation. As some 

 dung of bats was found on the floor under this place, a roll of flaming 

 sulphur was held below this helmet, and thus seventeen of these crea- 

 tures were expelled from this very limited place of confinement. 



September 4. In the same church two of the long-eared species 

 were found dead. On dissection, one was found to have its 

 ribs crushed together, and the other was as greatly injured in the 

 lumbar vertebrae. 



September 5. At T a bat flew into the drawing-room, through 



a crooked side passage, when from the entrance of the house they 

 might have chosen a wider and lighter space, by the side of which 

 they passed without turning into it : they preferred the darker passage 

 to a light one. There is a very narrow crevice over the wood-work of 

 a window in this mansion ; out of which I saw four bats take flight. 

 They came through it easily, although it is exceedingly narrow. 

 After a few minutes one of them returned from its flight, and did not 



