80 GREATER HORSE-SHOE BAT. 



above, pale-grey beneath ; the lateral membranes 

 dusky; the ears pale-brown. The entire length is 

 three inches and nine lines, that of the head being 

 eleven lines, of the body an inch and seven lines, , 

 of the tail an inch and a quarter ; the alar expan-^ 

 sion fourteen inches. 



This species was first described by Daubenton, 

 in 1759, in the Memoiresde P Academic des Sciences, 

 under the name of Le grand fer-a-cheval, or Great 

 Horse-shoe Bat. Dr Latham was the first who 

 found it in England, and by him it was communi- 

 cated to Pennant. Montagu observed it, along with 

 the smaller species, in the cavern called Kent's 

 Hole, near Torquay ; and it has been procured in 

 various caverns in the south of England, as well as 

 in Rochester and Bristol Cathedrals. Of its habits 

 little more is known than that it retreats to the 

 darkest parts of caves, deserted quarries, and build- 

 ings. The female is said to have commonly two 

 young ones. 



