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at base, bright chestnut at the surface ; beneath, dusky 

 at the base, dark greyish brown at the surface. Wings 

 dusky, parts near the body very hairy above and below ; 

 thumb short and feeble ; colour said to be much darker in 

 the young. 



Length of head and body, 2 inches 2 lines ; head, 7^ 

 lines ; tail, 1 inch 8 lines ; ears, 5 lines ; tragus, 2^ lines ; 

 breadth of ears, 4 Hues ; of tragus, 1-^ line ; length of the 

 fore-arm, 1 inch 6-i- Hues ; thumb, 1 1 line ; extent of 

 ^vings, 11 inches. 



It is said to frequent holloAV trees, congregating in vast 

 numbers ; is fond of the neighbourhood of stagnant waters. 



In England only one specimen is known to have been 

 taken, and the only other habitat given by Desmarest is 

 Germany, near AYillens, where it was discovered by Leisler ; 

 but Blasius asserts that he has seen it in the east of France, 

 in several places in South Germany, all along the Alpine 

 chain, in Hungary, and Central Russia. 



Vespertilio Schreibersii. 



Vespertilio Schreibersii, Desm. Mamm. Sp. 207 ; Temm. Monog. vol. ii. 



p. 174. 

 Vespertilio Ursinii, Buon. Faun. Ital. (figured). 



Description. — Upper incisors very small, with a large 

 space between the pairs, and another space between the 

 incisors and canines ; second upper molar nearly as long 

 and as sharp as the canines ; head small ; upper lip swoUen, 

 furnished with some silky hairs; muzzle thick, 1 line in 

 width ; gape not reaching as far as the ears, which are 

 smaU, shorter than the head, triangular, rounded at the 

 angles, with a velvety border internally ; tragus lanceolate, 

 bent inwards towards the point. Fur ashy grey, paler 

 above, and often mixed with yellowish white. 



Length of head and body, 2 inches 1^ lines ; head b\ 



