172 Mr. Montagu's Account of some Species of Bats. 



county ; and we are informed in the British Miscellany, that it 

 has been taken in the powder-mill at Dartford in Kent. 



The figure and description given in that work are highly satis- 

 factory; but as it is a newly discovered quadruped in this island, 

 and of course little known, it may not be uninteresting to give 

 some additional description of it from specimens in my posses- 

 sion, and to make such further remarks as may conduce to its 

 natural history. 



The first I obtained was taken on wing in the village of Mil- 

 ton, which is situated near the coast, and, I believe, was a female. 



The colour of this is a dusk-black, intermixed with a few 

 gray-brown hairs towards the rump : the membranes of the 

 wings and tail dusky. 



On the 17th of August 1805, I procured a male specimen 

 alive; it was found adhering to a small tree near Kingsbridge. 



The length is nearly four inches, of which the tail measures 

 one inch seven eighths ; the extent of the wings about eleven 

 inches : weight exactly one hundred grains. 



The colour differed a little from that of the former, especially 

 in having the middle of the back and the breast mixed with sil- 

 very-oray hairs ; the lower belly, thighs, and behind the vent on 

 the tail membrane more gray. The nose is rounded in front, flat, 

 and cavernous on the top, in which part the nostrils are placed ; 

 ears large and black, furnished with a linear valve, and un- 

 usually broad at the base, extending forwards, and meeting over 

 the nose, so as to cover the forehead : eyes very small, seated 

 within the membrane of the ear: the teeth numerous in both 

 jaws, and much jagged ; in the upper, four cutting teeth, but no 

 canine, and a vacant space between those and the grinders : in 

 the lower jaw six cutting teeth, and four canine or longer 

 teeth, and between these last on each side is a small inter- 

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