flittermouse

A flittermouse, we learned, is a bat.

Over all the jackdaws chime and chatter, for it is their home now, and they share it with the owl and the flittermouse.

"He may have thought", reflects Miller, that "I was some more than unusually flittermouse publicist come to ingratiate myself, who needed to be made aware that a clan was a serious business."

The flittermouse is perhaps at his best when being darkly comic at his own expense.

However, in some parts of the country the bat is still called by its old English name, "the flittermouse," that is, the mouse that flitters, or flutters about.