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MAMMALS. 



same localities. Mr. Grieve had been aware of a large colony of Bats 

 frequenting this place for some six or seven years previously. At 

 that time this discovery extended the known distribution of the 

 species in Scotland, making this locality the northernmost outpost 

 known at that time. On the occasion of Mr. Grieve's visit in 

 September 1896, he found no traces of the presence of the colony, 

 and raises the question as to whether Daubenton's Bat may be a 

 migratory species. 



We now know that Daubenton's Bat is common along the valley 

 of the Tay from Perth to Ballinluig, and especially so about Murthly 

 and Dalguise {aud. J. G. Millais). One of the Loch Dochart 

 specimens first obtained is in the Perth Museum, and specimens have 

 also been obtained by Miss E. Thornton at Stobhall, near Stanley. 

 Indeed Daubenton's Bat may be looked upon as the commonest 

 species throughout its presently known range in such localities as are 

 suited to its habits. Loch Dochart is some 512 feet above sea-level. 



Millais quotes Grieve as authority for Loch Dochart, and he also 

 draws attention to the fact that Fleming in his British Animals has 

 included it under the name of emarginatus as occurring in Fife 

 {op. cit., p. 6), and also Campbell as authority for Argyll (see A Fauna 

 of tlie North-West Highlands and Shje, p. 1). I am glad to be able to 

 give illustrations of the rocks (see page 58). 



We are also made aware that these Bats frequent the lower loch 

 at a position well known to Mrs. Place of Glen Dochart, where she 

 has heard them " chirruping '" above her head in the chinks of the 

 rocks while her guests and herself sat beneath at tea. When I 

 visited Loch Dochart in May 1905, in order to guide Mr. Xorrie to 

 the situations and in order to get photographs taken, there were none 

 to be seen or heard, and the probability of course was that they had 

 not arrived from their winter quarters. 



In mid-December 1905 the weather was so mild that the Eev. 

 Wm. Macconnochie on several evenings saw three or four or more 

 Bats hawking for moths over the roads. The Eev. Wm. Macconnochie 

 adds: "Three species of Bat frequent the old church building at 

 Guthrie," and "Daubenton's Bats appear later in the season than the 

 Pipistrelle. Both are common, and often seen at a little stream 

 above the Lunan Water in considerable numbers.' 



Vespertilio mystaci n us, ieis/^r. Whiskered Bat. 



Mr. William Evans when referring to the occurrence of this species in 

 East Lothian {Annals Scot. A'^af. Hist., 1893, p. 146), refers to 



