﻿Class 
  I.— 
  MAMMALIA. 
  

  

  Order 
  C 
  HI 
  ROPTER 
  A. 
  — 
  Bats. 
  

   Family 
  VESPERTILIONIME. 
  

  

  Of 
  this 
  family, 
  the 
  only 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  order 
  represented, 
  we 
  

   have 
  but 
  a 
  very 
  limited 
  number 
  of 
  species. 
  After 
  searching 
  

   and 
  visiting 
  many 
  places 
  likely 
  to 
  be 
  frequented 
  by 
  Bats, 
  I 
  

   have 
  only 
  been 
  able 
  to 
  find 
  the 
  following 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  Genus 
  VESPERTILIO. 
  

  

  Vespertilio 
  daubentoni, 
  Leister. 
  

  

  This 
  is 
  by 
  far 
  the 
  most 
  common 
  and 
  abundant 
  Bat 
  we 
  

   have. 
  In 
  company 
  with 
  two 
  friends 
  — 
  Mr. 
  R. 
  Gibb, 
  Aberdeen, 
  

   and 
  Mr. 
  Geo. 
  Sim, 
  Gourdas, 
  Fyvie 
  — 
  I 
  paid 
  a 
  visit 
  in 
  1890 
  

   to 
  the 
  old 
  Castle 
  of 
  Gight, 
  and 
  between 
  the 
  joints 
  of 
  the 
  

   stone 
  roof 
  of 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  vaults 
  we 
  found 
  hundreds 
  of 
  them. 
  

   In 
  August, 
  1891, 
  I 
  visited 
  Manar, 
  on 
  the 
  Don, 
  and 
  in 
  an 
  

   attic 
  in 
  the 
  keeper's 
  house, 
  saw 
  immense 
  numbers 
  hanging 
  

   in 
  clusters 
  from 
  the 
  roof 
  of 
  the 
  apartment. 
  

  

  MacGillivray 
  says 
  : 
  " 
  I 
  have 
  not 
  met 
  with 
  so 
  much 
  as 
  a 
  

   single 
  Bat 
  of 
  any 
  species 
  in 
  the 
  district, 
  but 
  several 
  persons 
  

   have 
  informed 
  me 
  that 
  they 
  have 
  seen 
  Bats 
  repeatedly." 
  

  

  Bats 
  are, 
  however, 
  now 
  quite 
  common 
  all 
  along 
  the 
  Valley 
  

   of 
  the 
  Dee, 
  and 
  I 
  saw 
  them 
  flying 
  about 
  the 
  Castleton 
  of 
  

   Braemar 
  abundantly 
  in 
  July, 
  1893. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  Edin. 
  Neiu 
  Phil. 
  Journal 
  (1844), 
  vol. 
  xxxvii., 
  p. 
  392, 
  

   there 
  is 
  a 
  paper 
  on 
  " 
  The 
  Mammalia 
  of 
  the 
  Counties 
  of 
  

   Aberdeen 
  and 
  Kincardine 
  " 
  by 
  MacGillivray, 
  in 
  which 
  

   he 
  says 
  that 
  V, 
  daubentoni 
  is 
  " 
  very 
  abundant 
  about 
  Old 
  

   Aberdeen, 
  and 
  in 
  great 
  numbers 
  about 
  Old 
  Machar 
  

   Cathedral." 
  Subsequent 
  to 
  this, 
  however, 
  he 
  made 
  a 
  search 
  

   for 
  Bats 
  within 
  the 
  roof 
  of 
  Old 
  Machar 
  Cathedral, 
  and 
  took 
  

   some 
  hundreds, 
  all 
  of 
  which 
  were 
  of 
  this 
  species. 
  Since 
  the 
  

  

  