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LONG-EARED BAT — WHISKERED BAT — DAUBENTON’s BAT — NATTERER’s BAT. 15 
LONG-EAREI) BAT. Plecotus auritus (Linnseus). 
“ Homed Bat.” 
Resident, but unevenly distributed. — Harley wrote : — “ Widely diffused over 
the county. Partly gregarious. Plentifully found in Bradgate Park, where, 
no doubt, it finds shelter by day in the pollard oaks, ruins, crannies of rocks, 
and holes which abound there. Breeds in the county.” Mr. W. A. Vice, IM.B., 
presented to the Museum a stuffed specimen, procured by him at Blaby Mill 
about 1883, and another — a living specimen — obtained at the same place 
on 13th July, 1885. I saw two in the hands of Turner, a bird-stuffer, one of 
which was caught behind a shutter at Barkby some time in 1884, and the other 
at Hinckley in September, 1885, the latter specimen being like the one described 
by Jenyns (see Bell, 2nd edition, x>p. 79-80). John Ryder sent me a young 
male, from Belvoir, on 20th March, 1886. Mr. IMacaulay sent me three, obtained 
from the belfry of Kibworth Church, on 5th June, 1887, and another on 2nd 
June, 1888. Mrs. Biddle sent me one, found behind a shutter at Sutton-in-the- 
Elms on 26th May, 1888, and I received a living specimen from Carlton Curlieu 
Hall, Nov., 1888. 
WHISKERED BAT. Vespertilio mystacinus (Leisler). 
After considerable search, extending over many years, aided also by a large 
number of observers, and getting a great many Pipistrelles, this rare little 
Bat has, as I predicted, been found in the county, through the exertions of Mr. 
G. Kirby, of Lubenham Lodge, who kindly forwarded to the JIuseum a nice young 
male specimen, taken in his garden on 17th Sept., 1888. 
DAUBENTON’S BAT. Vespertilio dauhentonii (Leisler). 
Rare. — An adult female of this species (9f inches in expanse of wings) was 
brought to me, whilst still alive, on 19th June, 1885, having been shot with a 
catapult on the evening of the 17th, whilst flying over water at Ay lest one, by 
Master George Snoad, who kindly presented it to the 3Iuseum. 
NATTERER’S BAT. VespjeHilio nattereri (Kuhl). 
“ Reddish-grey Bat.” 
Rare. — I was first enabled to add this species, which is rather rare in Britain, 
from having determined a specimen which I saw in the possession of the Rev. A. 
Matthews, who informed me that it was caught in his house at Gumley many 
years ago — he cannot recall the exact date. Since then, Clarke, the sexton at 
Aylestone Church, brought me a specimen which he found dead in the church on 
31st July, 1887, and which was the first ever acquired by the Museum. 
Being quite sure there were more of them in the church, I purchased a 
“ Bat-fowling ” net, and went upon the evening of 12th August, 1887. There 
