MAMMALS. 



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Mr. Charles Eversfield was the gentleman who secured it. It was 

 decomposed when Millais got it, but he has preserved the skeleton 

 for the Perth Museum. This record appears to have been too late 

 for insertion in Mr. Millais' great work on British Mammals in its 

 own place in vol. i., issued early in November 1904. 



Vesperugo pipistrellus (»S'c/z/^^&.). Pipistrelle. 



Mr. James Milne remarks upon a curious feeding habit of a colony of 

 this species which has possession of the roof and tower of the parish 

 church of Auchenblae. He noticed how promptly these Bats pounced 

 upon and soon devoured a lump of putty, which had been left by 

 some workmen in the course of repairs in the tower. Mr. Milne 

 continues: "All over the sill of the window and the floors their 

 mouse-like droppings were thickly strewed. These seemed to be 

 composed of pure whiting without any admixture of any other food, 

 such as flies.'"' 



Another large colony exists at Glenbervie Mansion House — all 

 identified as Pipistrelles. They have their domicile under the ridge 

 stones of the roof. Nine old and three young were all Mr. Milne 

 received from this locality, but he believes all the others to hare 

 been of the same species. 



As long ago as 1874 I can remember seeing many Bats flying 

 around the Barracks shooting-lodge, and identified one certainly which 

 happened to be knocked down by a driver's whip; and Mr. R. 

 Godfrey found " probably this species " around Eannoch Lodge, in the 

 same district and close to the Barracks, observing one in broad day- 

 light ; and others were seen along the lochside towards Camusericht. 

 This was in 1902. 



Very common about Perth city and central Perthshire, also 

 identified about Duncrub, and common all up the Tay valley ; 

 found by W. Evans very common at Fearnan, and three knocked 

 down by him were all of this common species. 



Vespertilio daubentoni, Leisler. Daubenton's Bat. 



The fullest account of the discovery of this Bat in 1S88 at Loch 

 Dochart in the west of the area is given by Mr. Symington Grieve, 

 and a most interesting account it is, but the space at our disposal 

 prevents my going into all the details. The full account will be 

 found in the Annals Scot. Nat. Hist. (vol. iii. pp. 193-5); and 

 a further note in the same for 1896, p. 57, dated 6th July, when 

 Mr. Symington Grieve again found the colony in possession of the 



