COMMON BAT. Class I. 



The principal diftindion between this and the 

 common kind, is the ears; which in this are above 

 an inch long, very thin, and almofl: tranfparent : 

 within each of thele is a lefler ear, or at lead 

 a membrane refembling one; which, as Mr. 

 Edwards obferves, may pofTibly ferve as a valve to 

 clofe the larger, in the fleeping (late of this a- 

 nimal. 



41. Common. Vefpertillo. Bat, Flitter, or 



Flutter Moufe. Rati fyn. 



quad. 243. 

 Short-eared Englijh Bat. Ediv. 



a-v. 201. f. 2. 

 Seb. Mus. i. 

 The Rear Moufe. Charlton 



ex. 80. 

 Meyer'' s an i. Tab. 3. 

 Gejncr anj. 766. 

 Vefpertilio murini coloris, pe- 



dibus omnibus pentadafty- 



lis. Brtjfon quad. 158. 

 La chauve iouris. De Buffon, 



Tom. viii. 113. Tab. 16. 

 Vefpertilio murinus. Lin./yji. 



47- 

 V. caudatus nafo oreque fim- 



plici. Faun. Suec. 2. 

 V. major. Klein quad. 61. 

 Vefpertilio. Plmii Lib. x. 



6. 61. 

 Br. Zool. 55. Syn. quad. No, 



291. 



THIS fingular animal was placed by Pliny^ 

 Gefner^ Aldrovandus^ and fome other natu- 

 ralifts, among the birds : they did not confider, 

 that it wanted every charader of that order of 

 animals, except the power of flying : if the irre- 

 gular^ 



