4358 Quadrupeds . 



cations at Charleraont, and one specimen taken by Brongniart near 

 Dover. The date of the time containing this account is 1806, and I 

 am unaware of any other until 1820, when the 'Mammalogie' of 

 Desmarest made its appearance, but without adding anything new to 

 our knowledge of the species. 



The next account we have appears to be that of Millet, in his 

 ' Faune de la Maine et Loire,' in 1828, and, from the way in which he 

 speaks, it must be supposed that he had examined specimens, as his 

 description is much fuller than either of the two preceding him ; in- 

 deed he distinctly mentions having met with it in the month of June 

 u dans un des appartimens de la Baumette ; tres rare." 



In the same year Dr. Fleming brought out his ' British Animals/ 

 and, although he alludes to it as occurring in Fife, it is pretty evident 

 from his remarks that he was unacquainted with the species, for he 

 writes of its being "apt to be confounded" with M. murinus, — the 

 largest European species, whilst V. emarginatus is one of the 

 smallest. 



The ' Synopsis Mammalium ' of Fischer appeared the following 

 year (1829), but he adds nothing to our store of knowledge on the 

 subject, except that he refers to Kuhl's ' Beytrage zur Zoologie,' and 

 to the MSS. of Leisler, neither of which authorities I am able to 

 consult. 



A good figure of what is supposed to be the V. emarginatus is given 

 in the * Fauna Italica' of the Prince of Canino, as also a figure of 

 the skull, and both are exceedingly accurate representations of V. Nat- 

 tereri, to which species the whole account is referred by MM. Key- 

 serling and Blasius, in their work to be hereafter mentioned. 



Two years after the date of the ' Fauna Italica,' the valuable mono- 

 graph of the Vespertiliones by Temminck made its appearance (1835), 

 but his figure is evidently a copy from that given in the first instance 

 by Geoffroy, — a circumstance most remarkable, when we find that he 

 says there are specimens in the Museums of Paris and the Low 

 Countries. 



The V. emarginatus of the ' British Vertebrate Animals,' by the 

 Rev. Leonard Jenyns, which bears date the same year, is obviously 

 the V. Daubentonii of other writers on Mammalia, — a fact he himself 

 slates to be the case in the ' Annals and Magazine of Natural His- 

 tory.' 



In 1836* M. Hollandre published his ' Faune de la Moselle,' in 

 which he mentions that the species was not rare in 1822-3, and that 



