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Vespertilio noctulinus, lsid. Geoff. 



Scotophilus castancus, Gray. 



Nycticeius Tcmminckii, Schinz. 



Nycticcius Bclangerii, Temminck, apud Schinz. 



Nycticeius noctulinus, Temminck, apud Schinz. 



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HORSESHOE, Or LEAF-NOSED BAT. 



This bat has an appendage on the nose, which is either 

 a horse-shoe- or a leaf, at the pleasure of the observer. It 

 is not to be confounded, however, with the phyllostoma, an 

 American genus. The Karens call it the broken-nosed 

 bat. I think there arc. two species ; one is of a yellowish 

 colour. Mr. Blyth has received the two following from 

 Arracan : 



Hipposideros vulgaris, Gray. 



Rhinolop'ius " Horsfield. 



" insignis, Tern in. 



Hipposideros larvatus, Horsfield. 



SMALL I!AT. 



The smallest species of bat in the Provinces differs 

 from all the preceding, both in form and habit. It ought 

 to be called the domestic bat. I had one quite domiciled 

 in my house, where it would hang by its heels all day, un- 

 der the bedstead, without creating the least disturbance. 

 But when night came on it would make a few evolutions 

 round the room, and then fly away. It was always, how- 

 ever, home again by daylight in the morning. 



On anolher occasion, a whole family took up their abode 

 in a small space between a post in the house and a parti- 

 tion ; and they are often found in the hollow ends of bam- 

 boos in the roof. In an old brick building that Dr. Judson 

 occupied in Rangoon, they were so numerous in the up- 

 per story, that he killed two hundred and fifty in one day. 

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