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which the tremendous long fingers are the sticks ; humpy about the shoulders, 

 sloping down to a furry expanse behind, with a piggish little head, twisting 

 all ways at once, on a stumpy neck ; mouse-like ears, standing straight up ; 

 funny, little, snapping, black specks of eyes; and an " open" countenance 

 indeed for the mouth is deep, bristling with fine needle-like teeth, while 

 from the throat comes a sharp squeaky barking of anger and perhaps 

 defiance, if we can suppose such a pigmy to have so great a soul. Such is 

 the simple creature that excites emotional persons to fancies not wholly 

 lacking an element of terror ; and the utmost damage it could do the 

 clumsy giants, its captors, would be a prick from its tiny teeth pretty sure 

 to be given to an incautious finger-tip. 



An anecdote illustrating a tender trait of this animal has been related 

 by Mr. Titian Peale. A person had caught and taken home a young Red 

 Bat. " Three hours afterward, in the evening, as he was conveying it to 

 the museum, in his hand, while passing near the place it was caught, the 

 mother made her appearance and followed the boy for two squares, flying 

 around him, and finally alighted on his breast, such was her anxiety to save 

 her offspring. This faithful creature lived two days in the museum, and 

 then died of injuries received from her captor. The young one, being but 

 half grown, was still too young to take care of itself, and died shortly after." 



ATALAPHA (LASIURUS) CINEREUS, (Beauv.) Coues. 

 The Hoary Bat. 



Vcspcriilio cinereus, PALISOT DE BEAUVOIS, Cat. Peale's Pliila. Mus., 179G, 14. 



LECONTE, Proc. Pliila. Acad., 1855, 433. 



Lasiurus cinereus, H.ALLEN, Monog., 21. J. A. ALLEN, Bull. Mus. (Jomp. Zuol., ii, 208. 

 Vespertilio pruinosus, SAY, Loug's Exp. E. Mts., 1823, 07. HARL., Fu. Am., 



1825, 21 ; Med. & Phys. Ees., 1831, 28. GODM., Am. Nat. Hist,, i. 1831, 68, 



pi. 2, f. 3. RICH., F. B.-A., i, 1829, 1. COOP., Ann. Lye. N. Y., iv, 1837, 



54, DEKAY, K Y. Fn., i, 1842, 7, pi. 2, f. 2. 

 ScotophUtis pruinosiis, GRAY, Mag. Zool. Bot., ii, 1838, 498. 

 Nycticejm pruinosus, TEMM., Mou. Mamm., 1835, 154. WAGN., Snppl. Schreb., i, 1840, 



544 ; v, 1855, 770. 

 rus pruinosus, TOMES, P. Z. S., 1857, 37. 



CHARS. Dentition and other structural characters precisely as in the last species. 

 Size averaging larger ; length, 4-5i inches; tail alone, 2-2.\ ; extent, 10-15, but usually 



