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A Vertebrate Fauna of Lakeland; Including Cumberland and Westmorland With Lancashire North of the Sands
A Vertebrate Fauna of Lakeland Including Cumberland and Westmorland With Lancashire North of the Sands Author:Hugh Alexander Macpherson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1892 Original Publisher: D. Douglas Subjects: Vertebrates Lake District (England) Natural history Nature / General Nature / Essays Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / General Travel / Europe / Great Britain Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the or... more »iginal. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: IBoofe jfirst. MAMMALIA. Order CHIBOPTEBA. Fam. VESPERTILIONIDE. BARBASTELLE. Synotu s barbastellws (Schreb.). The only examples of this Bat that are known to have occurred in Lakeland were captured many years ago in the neighbourhood of Carlisle. They were skinned for the collection of Mr. T. C. Heysham. At the sale of his specimens they were purchased by the late Mr. F. Bond, at whose house I had the pleasure of examining them in March 1886. Their presence in Cumberland can only be accounted for by the supposition that they had migrated into Lakeland as summer visitants. There can be no doubt that some species of Bats migrate seasonally. In April 1891 I observed a small flight of large-sized Bats migrating through one of the passes of the Pyrenees. These animals were not hawking, but kept in a fairly compact body, and flew with the same definite purposeness that one is accustomed to remark in Swallows pressing forward on the return journey to their breeding quarters. LONG-EARED BAT. Plecotus auritus (L.). j This species is less evenly distributed than the Pipistrelle, but in some places it is almost as numerous. The late James Fell informed me that, while following his trade as a slater, he had on several occasions found large colonies of this species in the roofs of old buildings, ."/:?';' NOCTULE. '.'!; ' ."."- ." Veperugo noclula (Schreb.). The Great Bat is so familiar to me as a Lo...« less