BAT BEHAVIOUR
Although I am not very well up in bats they have a fascination for me, particularly when they apP0Jr to like the space between the house in which I live and the one next to it. It is a place favoured hY insects at dusk, perhaps because it is a sheltered area, and the bats frequently dart along the corridor, as it were, to take supper. They must get what theY are after, for they return again and again. What soil• of bat they are I cannot say. They are quite evidentl) not the smallest nor yet the largest of the comma species, and are probably the breed that altBOst frightened the painter off his ladder when he do.' turbed them at roost. One might as well ask who without bats hereabouts for, by all accounts, every' one has a few in summer and in autumn. We may Be, to look at the pipes in winter and find no sign 01 them, but that is because they are off hibernating le one of the limestone caves or disused quarry work' ings that offer more congenial winter quarters than 11 draughty loft or attic.
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