CHEIROPTEROUS ANIMALS, 



BATS. 



A GREAT diversity of opinion has always existed 

 respecting the arrangement of the Mammalia. Lin- 

 nseus, in the last edition of his Systema Naturae, 

 published in his own lifetime, divided them into 

 seven orders : Primates, Bruta, Ferce t Glires, Pe- 

 cora, Belluce, and Cete. In the celebrated Prodro- 

 mus Systematis Mammalium et Avium of Illiger, 

 published in 181 1, there are fourteen orders of Mam- 

 malia: Erecta, Pollicata, Salientia, Prensicu- 

 lantia, Multungula, Solidungula, Bisulca, Tardi- 

 grada, Ejffodientia, Reptantia, Volitantia, Falcu- 

 lata, Pinnipedia, and Natantia. Blumenbach re- 

 stricts the orders to nine : Bimanus, Quadru- 

 mana, Chiroptera, Digitata, Solidungula, JJisulca, 

 Multungula, Palmata, and Cetacea. In the Regne 

 Animal of Cuvier, the Mammalia are disposed in 

 nine orders : JBimana, Quadrumana> Carnivores, 



