Class 1. MAMMALIA. 



Sub-class MONODELPHIA. 



Order CHIROPTERA. 

 Sub-order MICROCHIROPTERA. 

 Family VESPERTILIONIDiE. 



Vesperugo pipistrellus (Schreb.). Pipistrelle. 



Common, and widely distributed in all suitable localities from Suther- 

 land to the Ness. We have seen them at Guisachan and Inver- 

 garry, as well as in the still better wooded and more fertile districts 

 along the coast. 



Captain Dunbar Brander of Pitgaveny informs us that, whereas 

 formerly Bats were quite abundant, they have now ' all but dis- 

 appeared ' about the districts around Elgin. He says : — ' Now, 

 one may be seen in a week, where formerly one could probably 

 find a dozen,' and he accounts for the difference in their numbers 

 by the disappearance of suitable shelter, by the substitution of 

 slated roofs for the old stone-flagged roofs. 



It may still, however, be considered of pretty general distri- 

 bution, and it was found to be so by Mr. \Vm. Evans in Strath- 

 spey, and specimens have been sent to Mr. Eagle-Clarke from 

 North Elgin and Banff.i 



Mr. E. Thomson - gives some interesting field-notes regarding 

 the species — too long, however, for insertion here, — but we quote 



^ Mr. Eagle-Clarke has had it from Speymouth from Rev. Dr. Gordon. 



- Mr. R. Thomson, Schoolhouse, Ferness, a very able local naturalist, who, 

 under the early and kind tuition of Dr. George Gordon, has for many years devoted 

 his leisure time to a study of geology, botany, and zoology of his native parisli of 

 Ardclach. 



