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THE ZOOLOGIST. 



eaves of the church at Nantglyn, Denbighshire.* The first, 

 which emerged at 7.15, was followed at short intervals by seven 

 others, and at 7.27 between twenty and thirty appeared in qujck 

 succession. On several evenings in tiie spring of 1900 I timed 

 the Noctules as they left their den in the dead limb of a beech at 

 Alderley Edge, and later in the year I made some observations 

 on a second colony which had its quarters in the hollow trunk of 

 a living Scotch fir in the same district. The results are sum- 

 marised in the following table : — ■ 



m 





Date. 



April 18tli 

 „ 21st 



„ 26th 



May 3rd . 



„ 4th . 

 „ 6th . 



August 5th. 

 „ 10th. 



12th. 



13th. 

 „ 14th. 



23rd 



„ 27th 



,. 30th 



31st 



September 3rd 

 4th 

 5th 

 7th 

 9th 

 17th 

 29th 



s s g^ 





pq 



13 



-^ S a 



2 oj >H 



^ m « 



"S ta a' 

 ojpq o 



C "S 2 



H Si ^ 



6.58 i 7.11 10 7.37-7.40 

 7.4 I 7.17 4 7.45-7.46 



I Windy and cold. I watched from 7.35-8.20. 



\ No Bats appeared, ahhough they were squeak- 



\ ing in the den. 



I Windy and very cold. Bats again squeaking, 



\ but none emerged between 7.45 and 8.20. 



7.25 



7.28 



7.40 

 7.32 

 7.28 

 7.26 

 7.24 



7.40 



20 



7.43 



15 



7.56 



9 



7.47 



9 



7.43 



4 



7.41 



2 



7.39 



6 



7.58-8.4 

 7.58-8.0 



8.12-8.13 



7.58-8.3 

 7.50-7.59 

 7.46-7.49 

 7.32-7.44 



J-,, (I caught three Bats- 



emersred this evening. 



9.5 

 9.7 



-all females — as they 



7.6 



7.20 



5 



6.57 



7.10 



22 



6.51 



7.4 



19 



6.48 



7.1 



16 



6.42 



6.54 



27 



6.40 



6.52 



24 



6.37 



6.49 



27 



6.33 



t^44 



17 



6.28 



6.39 



18 



6.10 



6.20 



6 



5.42 



5.42 



17 



7.29-7.31 



7.29-7.30 



7.2-7.8 



6.55-7.4 



7.7-7.11 



6.56-7.1 



6.59-7.4 



6.48-6.51 



6.53-6.56 



6.28-6.29 



6.6-6.8 



8.24 

 8.41 



8.22 

 7.53 

 7.58 



7.54 



* The Noctule, although probably commoa and generally distributed, 

 has been recorded from but few Welsh localities. Mr. G. H. Caton-Haigh 

 states that it is common in Merionethshire (Zool. 1887, p. 293). In May, 



