The Essex Naturalist
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Parti-Coloured bat Vespertilio murinus (L., 1758)
Newman (1874) says "that many years ago, Doubleday shot at Epping, a bat
which he believed to be of this species, after watching it on the wing tor some
time; but, unfortunately, the specimen, though searched for diligently at the
place where it fell after being shot, could not be found." This is a species with
recorded migrations of up to 1440km (Roer, 1995) which has appeared as a