AN UNUSUAL SIGHT.
[TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOE.1 SIR,—As I was walking across St. James's Park between one and two o'clock in the afternoon of September 17th I saw a. large bat—it seemed to me the largest I had ever seen on the wing in this country—flying about in the park. The sun was shining very brightly at the time in a practically cloudless sky, and the thermometer in the park (exposed to the sun) registered at the time exactly 80° Fehr. At first I thought this bat was a young sand-martin, itself a fairly unusual sight in St. James's Park. But it flew within a few feet of me, enabling me to see it well, and to note the suulight coming through its translucent, membranous wings. It was rather light brown in colour, and almost the size of a sand-martin.
I have never before in this country seen a bat out in bright sunshine in the middle of the day.—I am, Sir, &c., W. M. CROOK.
Devonshire Utak St. James's, S.W.
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