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226 Phylum Vertebrata patch use are primarily water coverage and seasonal changes (GUBÁNYI et al. 2001 and 2002a). Thirty-one species of insectivore and rodent were recorded during recent investigations in and around the FertőHanság National Park (GUBÁNYI et al. 2002b). Although the literary data is considerable, there have been no records of forest dormouse (Dryomys nitedula) or fat dormouse (Myoxus glis) in the district. The latter species was first collected in Sopron in the 1920s and later found on the Austrian side of Fertő (BAUER 1960). However, southern birch mice (Sicista subtilis) have been found recently near Fertő (TRASER 1980). Remains of small mammals found in owl casts have provided numerous distribution data (ANDRÉSI and SÓDAR 1981a, 1981b and 1987a; JÁNOSKA 1992, 1993a, 1993d and 1995). The data from the Lajta Project were recounted by CSABA NÉMETH (1997), while mammal fauna from the Austrian side of Fertő were described by KURT BAUER (1960). The mammal fauna of neighbouring Burgenland is the subject of studies by several Austrian researchers. 120 Occurrences of the common pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) and noctule (Nyctalus noctula) around Fertő appear in the communication of ISTVÁN SZABÓ (1966) about the host species of fleas. On the Austrian side of the lake, KURT BAUER and GERTH ROKITANSKY (1955) reported on bats flying at Neusiedl am See. A side-product of investigations into Lepidoptera near Sopron yielded the information that P. pipistrellus is among the predators on the common winter moth (Operophtera brumata —AMBRUS and CSÓKA 1989). The bat fauna of the Fertő-Hanság National Park has been less investigated, so that there are fewer published data. The first was listed by LAJOS MÉHELY (1900). Subsequent work was done by JÁNOS PASZLAVSKY (1918), GYULA ÉHIK (1924) and ISTVÁN VÁSÁRHELYI (1939). These studies, among others, were summarised and augmented with his own findings by GYÖRGY TOPÁL (1954). Thereafter, new data was not published until the field work in the territory of DÉNES DOBROSI (1988) and MIKLÓS SZATYOR (1997). The most recent records rest on an annual survey of house-dwelling bats organized by the Hungarian Bat Research Society, 121 and partly on data from 1994-2001 gained through direct observation, mist-netting and ultrasound recording. Distribution data and status of 18 bat species have been listed for the Fertő-Hanság National Park and surroundings (PAPP, K. 1996, 1997 and 2002). ALFONZ FREH (1878) listed a few species found in the collection of Kőszeg Grammar School. Although the list contains commonly found species, it is not possible to establish clearly where they were collected. Much the same can be said of the list of mammal species by CSIGAHÁZY (1898). KUNCZ (1880) reported on 30 mammal species from 120 DRASKOVICH, K. 1973. Spezieies über die Tierwelt des Güssinger Raumes. In Stadteherbung Güssing 1973. Festschrift, 292-305. Güssing; GUGLIA, O. 1973. Streiflichter auf die Tierwelt, namentlich die Kleintierwelt des Güssinger Raumes. In Stadteherbung Güssing 1973. Festschrift, 275-9. See also WAGNER, O. 1976. Vergleichende chronologische Untersuchungen an Kleinsäuger-populationen im Karpathenraum. Vertebrata hungarica, 17:19-87. 121 Magyar Denevérkutatók Baráti Köre.
