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6 V. calcaraius. (Spurred Bat.) — Tail one-third; body dark brown 

 above, dark fallow beneath ; wings black ; shafts rose-colored, a spur at 

 the inner side of the elbow ; hind feet black. Length, 4 inches ; breadth, 

 12 inches. 



7. V. monachus. (Monk Bat.) — Tail one-fourth, hairy above, fringed 

 laterally ; body pale, fallow above and below ; head and neck covered with 

 a longer fur of a dark red fallow ; wings dark gray ; shafts red; hind feet 

 black ; nose red ; ears concealed in fur. Length, 4 inches ; breadth, 12 

 inches. 



8. V. phaiops. (Black-faced Bat.) — Tail one-third of total length, naked, 

 mucronate ; body dusky bay above, pale beneath ; face, ears, and wings 

 blackish ; 4 incisors in the upper jaw — 2 on each side, divided by a large 

 flat, wart, unequal, the outside ones larger and bilobed ; 6 small incisors 

 in the lower jaw. Length, 4^ inches ; breadth, 13 inches. 



9. V. megaloiis. (Big-eared Bat.) — Tail three-eighths of total length; 

 body dark gray above, pale gray beneath ; ears very large, duplicated, 

 auricles nearly as long. Length, 4 inches ; breadth, 12 inches. 



B. 



Rapinesque. — Annals of Xatiiro, 1820, 2. 



1. N. sp. Atalapha fuscata. — Ears longer than the head, auriculated 

 and blackish; tail three-sevenths of total length, jutting only by an ob- 

 tuse point ; body brownish above, grayish beneath ; shoulders and cheeks 

 dark brown ; hind feet blackish hairy above ; wings blackish brown. — 

 Found/ in the northern parts of New York, and in Vermont. Total lengtli, 

 3^ inches. My genus Atalapha (Preces des decouvertes Somoliogiques) 

 contain all the bats without, fore teeth ; there are three or four species of 

 tlifim in the United States all blended ujider the name of Vespertilio (or 

 2^ocUlio) noveboracensis by the writers. 



L N. g. J^ptesicus. — Four acute fore teeth to the upper jaw, in two 

 equal pairs, separated by a great interval and a large flat wart ; each pair 

 has two unequal teeth, the outside tooth is much larger and unequally 

 bifid, inside tooth small and entire ; six fore teeth to the lower jaw, equal, 

 very small, close and truncate ; canine teeth very sharp, curved and long ; 

 grinders unequally trifid ; snout plain, nose without appendages ; ears 

 separated, auriculated ; tail mucronate. — This genus appears to difl'er from 

 all those of Geoffroy and Cuvier, among the extensive tribe of bats. The 

 name means house-flyer. 



2. Eptisecus luelanops. — Fallowish brown above, pale beneath ; face, 

 ears, wings, feet and tail blackish ; ears oval, shorter than the head, 

 and wrinkled ; tail naked, one-third of total length, niucron one-sixth of 

 the tail ; posterior toes ciliate. — Not uncommon in Kentucky, Indiana, &c. 



