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THE SMALLER HORSE-SHOE BAT. 



Rhinolophus Hipposideros. LEACH. 



Nasal membrane double ; the anterior with its margins 

 sinuated ; the posterior ovato-lanceolate, without lateral 

 expansions ; the ears obsoletely grooved towards the outer 

 margin. 



Vespertilio Ferrum-equinum, B. Linn. Gmel. I. 50 Vespertilia 

 minutus. Mont. Linn. Trans. IX. 163 Rhinolophus bihas* 

 tatus, Geoffr. Ann. Mus. XX. 259; Desmar. Mammal. 12a 

 Rhinolophus Hipposideros. Leach, Zool. Misc. III. 2; 

 Jenyns, Brit. Vert. An. 20 ; Bell, Brit. Quadr. 73. 



THE Smaller so closely resembles the Greater 

 Horse-shoe Bat, that many excellent observers, 

 among others Daubenton and Kuhl, have considered 

 it as not entitled to specific distinction. Geoffroy 

 in France, and Montagu in England, appear to havt 

 been the first who traced the differences of the two 

 species. By the former it was named bihastatus* 

 and by the latter minutus, while Bechstein applied 

 to it the name of Hipposideros^ which is merely the 

 specific appellation of the Greater Horse-shoe Bat 

 translated into Greek, but which, although thus 



