3 OCTOBER 1908, Page 31

[To TER EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR, —Your correspondent's letter in

last week's Spectator remarking on the "unusual sight" of a bat flying about in bright sunlight leads me to record what must be a still more unusual sight. On September 17th, the day on which your correspondent saw the exceptionally large bat at two o'clock in St. James's Park, I watched in this neighbourhood, from three to six o'clock in the afternoon, a flock of from eighteen to twenty bats hawking about in their characteristic way. They were often at a considerable height, and might then have been by a casual observer mistaken for martins or swallows. Neither of these birds were seen on that afternoon.—I am, Sir, &o.,