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Show 1901.] MAMMALS OF THE BALEARIC ISLANDS. 37 1. EHINOLOPHUS FERRUM-EQUINUM Schreb. San Cristobal, Minorca. The Greater Horseshoe Bat is evidently one of the commonest species in Minorca, as we ourselves found examples in two of the caves we visited, and the natives kept bringing in further specimens as they explored the different caves on our behalf. But in no case were large numbers found together, one or two being all that were to be obtained in any one cave. 2. EHINOLOPHTJS HIPPOSIDEROS Bechst. Inca, Majorca. San Cristobal, Minorca. All the specimens obtained of the Lesser Horseshoe Bat were found in caves. 3. PLECOTUS ATJRITUS L. Eecorded by Barcelo from Majorca and Iviza, and described to us as found in a cave at San Cristobal, Minorca. So windy a country is probably not very favourable to the Long-eared Bat. W e ourselves did not see any specimens. 4. VESPERTILIO SEROTINUS Schreb. Eecorded by Barcelo from Majorca and Iviza. 5. PTERYGISTES NOCTULA Schreb. Majorca (Barcelo). 6. PIPISTRELLUS PIPISTRELLUS Schreb. Eecorded as common by Barcelo. Not seen by ourselves, the Bats flying round the houses in Minorca proving to be the next species. 7. PIPISTRELLUS KUHLI Natt. a-c. San Cristobal, Minorca. Shot in the close neighbourhood of the village. The flight of this species struck us as very similar to that of its near ally our British Pipistrelle. 8. MYOTIS MYOTIS Bechst. Minorca (Eamis fide Barcelo). There was also a specimen, presumably from Majorca, in Don Miguel Eiutort's collection at Inca. 9. MYOTIS CAPAOCINII Bonap. <5 . Inca, March 26. Found in a crevice in the " Cueva de Santa Magdalena," a limestone cave in a hill a couple of miles from Inca. In another crevice close by we found a pair of Miniopterus schreibersi, the occurrence together of the two species being just as described in |