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The records of its Yorkshire distribution whicli are in my possession 

 through the kindness of numerous correspondents, show that the 

 Noctule is found as far to the north as Carperby, Masham, Keighley, 

 Northallerton and Whitby ; while it is not uncommon at Scarbro, 

 Leeds, Harrogate, Tadcaster, Boston Spa, and Goole. It would be 

 interesting if the naturalists of Durham and Northumberland would 

 ascertain whether its range can be extended beyond the line of the 

 Tees, which at present forms its northern boundary ; while for York- 

 shire naturalists only remains the task of filling up the blanks in the 

 records of its range within the county. 



3. Vesperugo leisleri (Kuhl). 



The hairy-armed bat, which is known to inhabit the English shires of 

 Warwick, Worcester, and Gloucester, and the Irish county of Armagh, 

 is known for Yorkshire only by a single record. Mr. Edward Newman, 

 in a series of " Collected Observations on British Bats," published 

 in the Field for March 7, 1874, p. 218, remarked that Mr. Bond 

 said that he had only seen three specimens of this species, all of which 

 were taken from a chimney-shaft near Leeds. 



4. Vesperugo pipistrellus (Schreb.) 



The Pipistrelle, or common bat, is generally diffused and very 

 abundant, not only in this county, but throughout the British Islands, 

 extending even to the Outer Hebrides, and the Orkneys. There is no 

 need to enter into any details as to its Yorkshire localities. 



5. Vespertilio natter eri (Kuhl.) 



The reddish-grey bat, which is widely distributed, though local, in 

 England and Ireland, has only once been reported to occur in Scotland, 

 and once in Yorkshire. Mr. Henry Denny, who published, in 1840, a 

 catalogue of animals of the Leeds district, stated that of this species a 

 living pair were brought him for the Museum of the Philosophical 

 Society, in June of the preceding year (1839), which were taken out of 

 an old tree in Oakwell Wood, near Birstall. 



This completes the Yorkshire list ; but it may be of service to consider 

 what other species may be expected to occur. Of the ten remaining British 

 species, two may be at once rejected as unlikely to occur, having each 

 been admitted to the British list on the strength of a single individual 

 being taken ; Vesperugo discolor (Nattererj, the parti-colored bat, and 

 Vespertilio murinus (Schreb.), the mouse-colored bat. The former 

 occured at Plymouth, and the supposition is induced that it was most 

 probably accidentally introduced in the rigging of a ship. The latter 

 was taken in the gardens of the British Museum, in London, and this 



