NATURAL HISTORY. 
attention-of the reader to any work where interesting 
information on the subject occurs; or to point out 
with greater precision the particular species meant. 
VERTEBRAL ANIMALS. 
I. Warm blooded, 
CLASS I. MAMMALIA. 
ORDER. CHEIROPTERA—BATS. 
VESPERTILIO. 1. Ferrum Equinum. The 
Horseshoe Bat. Linn, Trans. 9. p. 165, Found 
in caverns at Torquay and other places on the 
coast, Kents Hole, &c. 
2. V. Minurvus. Linn, Trans. 9. p. 163, Found 
in caverns with the preceding. These belong te 
the Genus Rhinolophus of Leach. (Zool. Misc. 3.} 
3. V. Murinus. Short Eared Bat. Penn. Brit, 
- Zool. 1. p. 148, This is the common species. 
4, V. Auritus. Long Eared Bat. Brit. Zool. 
1. p. 147. This we believe is not unfrequent, we 
have caught it at Ilsington and other places. The 
ears are nearly the length of the body. 
5. V. BagBAsTELLus, Linn. Trans. 9. p. 171, 
This is inserted on Col. Montague’s authority, 
The two last form the Genus P/ecotus of Fleming’s 
British Animals, p. 7. ; 
6. V. Pyemaus. Zool. Journal, v. 1. p. 559 hae 
584. t. 22, Small witha longish tail. Dr. Leach 
Girst noticed it as distinct at Spitchwick, and Dr, 
