102 BECHSTEIN'S BAT. 



larger size of the ears, the different proportions of 

 the wings, which, although as broad, are shorter, as 

 well as by the darker tint of the membrane and the 

 lighter colour of the belly. Not having had an 

 opportunity of examining this species, I refer to 

 Desmarest's description, which has in a great measure 

 evidently been copied by Messrs Jenyns and Bell. 

 The face is almost bare, being sprinkled with 

 small stiff hairs ; the muzzle long and conical ; the 

 nose rather narrow, and somewhat depressed in the 

 middle ; the ears longer than the head, rounded at 

 the end, thin and transparent; the tragus sickle- 

 shaped, a little curved outwards near the end ; the 

 eyes small, and black ; the mouth wide, extending 

 to the ears, the commissure of the lips situated be- 

 hind the angle of the eye ; six grinders above and 

 below on each side. The fur reddish-grey or yel- 

 lowish-grey above, and whitish-grey beneath; all 

 the hairs dark-brown at the base. According to 

 Mr Jenyns, the length of the head and body is two 

 inches one line ; of the head nine lines ; of the tail 

 one inch three lines ; of the ears ten lines ; of the 

 tragus four lines; the extent of wing eleven inches. 



