1837 T. Bell Hist. Brit. Quadrupeds 42 Vespertilio Nattereri. This species, to which I have applied the English name of Reddish-grey Bat from its prevailing colour, was first described by Kuhl, and named by him after..Dr. Natterer.]

1843 J. E. Gray List Specimens Mammalia Brit. Mus. 27 Natterer's Bat, Myotis Nattereri, Gray.

1862 J. Richardson Museum Nat. Hist. 53/2 Natterer's bat has hitherto, we believe, only been captured in the eastern counties of England.

1888 Zoologist 13 245 The present distribution of Natterer's Bat in the British Islands cannot be stated in a few words.

1910 G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton Hist. Brit. Mammals I. 178 Natterer's Bat ranges through boreal and temperate Europe and Asia.

1936 Times 25 Feb. 10/4 Natterer's bat will occasionally wake from hibernation during the month of February.

1966 J. Sankey Chalkland Ecol. iv. 106 Leisler's bat, Natterer's bat and Bechstein's bat appear less common than the remaining [British] species.

1997 BBC Wildlife Mar. 18/2 Natterer's bats feed by gleaning—they snatch prey from surfaces—and they specialise on items no more than 14mm in length.

1943 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 12 19 About twenty noctules were to be seen on the wing during the summer evenings... Whiskered and Natterer's I have identified only twice each.

1960 Times 14 June 14/6 The most up-to-date bat book today speaks of the Natterer's flight as ‘slow and steady’.

1988 London Naturalist No. 67. 161 At winter sites, Daubenton's Myotis daubentonii, Natterer's M. nattereri and brown long-eared Plecotus auritus were most regularly recorded.

1998 Eng. Nature Jan. 3/4 Natterers remain a Red Data Book species which need special conservation measures.

1900 Eng. Dict. Dial. II. 657/2 at Gnatter Lin[colnshire]. Eh! Miss, she is such a natterer; she is always nattering about.

1959 H. Hobson Mission House Murder xviii. 116 ‘Did this girl talk?’ ‘Not much..she wasn't one of the natterers.’

1994 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 24 July 131/1 The delightful wireless natterer Laurel Edwards is on the bill..next Saturday night.

2001 Irish Times (Electronic ed.) 3 Apr. If there's one outstanding reason to celebrate George Bush's abandonment of the Kyoto accords, it is that it gets right up the tiresome noses of the Natterers Who Dine.