. Bats of Portugal : zoogeography and systematics. Bats -- Portugal. 34 MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS However, Bauer (1956) identified three Spanish specimens as P. savii ochromixtus; according to him this subspecies was present in the Pyrenees, Iberia, and the Balearic Islands. The three speci- mens that Bauer (1956) examined are in fact large when compared to other European popula- tions. However, the specimen from the Pyrenees described by Harrison (1949,1958) is considera- bly smaller than any of Bauer's (1956) speci- mens and well within the range of variation of the nominate form. The same
. Bats of Portugal : zoogeography and systematics. Bats -- Portugal. 34 MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS However, Bauer (1956) identified three Spanish specimens as P. savii ochromixtus; according to him this subspecies was present in the Pyrenees, Iberia, and the Balearic Islands. The three speci- mens that Bauer (1956) examined are in fact large when compared to other European popula- tions. However, the specimen from the Pyrenees described by Harrison (1949,1958) is considera- bly smaller than any of Bauer's (1956) speci- mens and well within the range of variation of the nominate form. The same is true for both Miller's (1912) and Cabrera's (1914) specimens from Spain. Part of the variability might be attribut- able to differences in measuring techniques among the various authors, but it seems likely that the specimens examined by Bauer (1956) represent the upper size extreme of the Iberian populations. Due to great individual variability in P. savii, color characteristics are of little use when only small series are available. More speci- mens are needed to resolve the taxonomic status of P. p. ochromixtus. Genus Barbastella This genus occurs throughout the Palearc- tic and adjacent parts of the Oriental and perhaps Ethiopian regions. Only B. barbastellus occurs in western Europe. These small bats have broad but relatively low, forward-facing ears, with the inner margins of their bases very close together. The bases of the ears of all other European bats are widely separated, with the exception of Plecotus, but in this genus the pinnae are much longer than in Barbastella. The dental formula is as in Nyctalus and Pipistrellus: I 2/3, C 1/1, P 2/3, M 3/3 = 34. BARBASTELLA BARBASTELLUS (SCHREBER, 1774) Distribution.—This uncommon species ranges from Portugal eastward to the Caspian Sea (Bobrinskii et al., 1965) and from southern Scandinavia (Siivonen, 1976) to Macedonia (Dulic and Mikuska, 1966) and some Mediterra- nean islands (Kahmann, 1957). Panouse (1955) referred
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