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Show 1881.] DR. J. SCULLY ON THE MAMMALS OF GILGIT. 199 not met with above the latter elevation. It appears about the first week in April, and is not seen after the beginning of October. This Bat has a very powerful and long-sustained flight, and it frequently enters rooms at night. It generally flies higher up in the air than R. ferrum-equinum, and is perhaps more frequently found away from dense tree-growth than that species. R. hipposideros has not, I believe, been previously recorded from British India. 2. RHINOLOPHUS FERRUM-EQUINUM (Schreb.). Rhinolophus ferrum-equinum, Dobson, Cat. Chir. B. M. p. 119. This species was very common in the low hot valleys of the Gilgit district from about the middle of April to the end of September, appearing a little later in spring and disappearing a little earlier in autumn than R. hipposideros. Its flight appeared to be less powerful than that of its smaller relative; and when it entered a room at night it was more easily captured. Its vertical range in the district seems to be from about 4500 to 5500 feet. Its favourite haunts are orchards and clumps of mulberry trees, where insect food is abundant; and in the close hot evenings in summer it could always be found in the lowest parts of the valleys in such situations, flying low down about the trees. 3. SYNOTUS DARJILINGENSIS (HotlgSOll) . Synotus darjilingensis, Dobson, Cat. Chir. B. M . p. 177. This Bat was common in summer in the Gilgit district at an elevation of 5000 feet. It made its appearance as early as the first week in March, and was not seen after the first week in October. It frequently enters rooms in the evening from 8 to 10 o'clock. All the specimens collected differ from &. barbastellus of Europe in not having any projecting lobe on the outer margin of the ear; and in all of them the ear laid forward reaches beyond the end of the muzzle. 4. PLECOTUS AURITUS (Linn.). Plecotus auritus, Dobson, Cat. Chir. B. M . p. 178. This large-eared Bat is not of frequent occurrence in Gilgit. I obtained two specimens in September at an elevation of 5000 feet. 5. OTONYCTERIS HEMPRICHI (Peters). Otonycteris hemprichi, Dobson, Cat. Chir. B. M. p. 182. This fine species does not seem to he very common in the Gilgit valley. A specimen was first obtained there by Major Biddulph in July 1876 ; and the only specimen I secured was captured in Gilgit in May. It was observed flying over a field about dusk; and its large size'at once attracted attention. 6. VESPERUGO DISCOLOR (Natt.). Vesperugo discolor, Dobson, Cat. Chir. B. M . p. 204. This Bat was only observed in summer, in well-wooded country, |