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MAMMALS OF LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND. 
Short -tailed Grass-Vole; he called them the ‘Ked Horse-shoe Bat.’ I did not 
notice the nose.” One in the Museum, a young male, was shot at “Xew Parks,” 
on 14th July, 1884, by Mr. W. A. Evans; and on 2nd July, 1885, I received 
four specimens from Belvoir. I have observed it once or twice each summer since 
1880, but in 1884 so many were flying near the Aylestone IMill one evening at the 
end of June that I brought out my little '410 walking-stick gun, and in a few 
minutes killed several, one of which (a male) measured nearly fourteen inches in 
extent of wings. During the fine weather between the 17th and 23rd of April, 
1885, several were observed in the evening, and on the 21st I shot a young male 
at Aylestone. On the lltli June, 1885, three were flying above the road by the 
Aylestone IMill, two of which (both males) I shot. One measured 14| inches in 
expanse of wing. Three more were observed the next evening, of which I shot 
two — a male and female, now in the jMuseum. 
On 8th July, 1885, I shot, flying over the canal by “ S. IMary’s Mills,” 
Aylestone, one which fell into the water. Being dark at the time I could not 
see it, but my Dog fortunately retrieved it, for on examination I found it to be 
a female containing a naked foetus. I have seen it so late as October, but on the 
1st November, 1886, a fine specimen was brought to me, which some men had 
shot by the canal at Aylestone, this being a very late date for its appearance, only 
paralleled, I believe, by IMr. Harting’s date (see ‘Zoologist,’ 1887, j). 169). 
In June (I think on the 15th), 1887, I shot a male and female by the mill 
at Aylestone. The latter specimen appearing gravid, I carefully opened it, and 
discovered two well-developed but naked foetus. I cannot find in any notice of this 
species that it is credited with having more than one young at a birth. 
It will be observed that, of the fifteen species of Bats which are — some of them 
on imperfect evidence, I think — said to have been found in Britain, seven have, 
so far, been noted in Leicestershire ; here, then, is a field for investigation open 
to county naturalists, and I would therefore ask them to kindly forward all 
unknown Bats to me for identification, and the specimens so forwarded shall be 
returned if desired. 
The Hairy-armed Bat, V. leisleri (Kuhl), which is exceedingly like the present 
species, will probably }'et be found, and all Noctules should be carefully examined. 
Order EODENTIA. 
Sub-order JJ UPLICIDE^^TA TA . 
Family LEPOEID^. 
COMJION HAKE. Lepiis europcexis (Pallas). 
Resident, and commonly distributed. — Some winters ago (I forget the exact 
date) the local papers recorded the fact of a Hare running through the principal 
