RHINOLOPHUS.] MAMMALIA PRIMATES. 19 



doubts as to its being the species originally described by Geoffroy under 

 that name. It however approaches more nearly to it than to any other 

 I am acquainted with. My specimen was taken in a corn-field at some 

 distance from any water. The others have occurred in ditches. The 

 ciliated feet and tail evidently mark it to be of aquatic habits. 



GEN. 11. ERINACEUS, Linn. 



22. E. Europcsus. Linn. (Hedgehog.) Ears short : 

 spines moderately long. 



E. Europseus, Desm. Mammal, p. 147. Flem. Brit. An. p. 7. Common 

 Urchin, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 133. Hedgehog, Shaw, Gen. 

 Zool. vol. i. p. 542. pi. 121. 



DIMENS. Length of the head and body nine inches six lines ; of the 

 head two inches eleven lines ; of the ears one inch one line ; of the tail 

 nine lines. 



DESCRIPT. Body oblong, convex above, very low on the legs : head 

 produced into a snout which is truncated at the extremity : nostrils 

 narrow : ears short, broad, and rounded : neck thick and short : upper 

 part of the body clothed with round sharp-pointed spines, barely an 

 inch in length, which cross and interlace one another in all directions ; 

 the colour of them is whitish with a black ring a little higher up than the 

 middle : snout, forehead, sides of the head, under part of the neck, breast, 

 and legs, covered with coarse stiff hairs of a yellowish white colour. 



Resides in hedges, thickets, &c. Habits nocturnal. Omnivorous; 

 devouring roots, insects, worms, flesh, and even snakes. Becomes torpid 

 during the Winter. Produces in the early part of the Summer from two 

 to four young. Spines soft at birth, and all inclining backwards ; become 

 hard and sharp in twenty-four hours. In the adult state, has the power 

 of rolling itself into a ball to avoid danger. 



ORDER II. PRIMATES. 



GEN. 12. RHINOLOPHUS, Geoff. 



23. R. Ferrum-equinum, Gmel. (Greater Horse-shoe 

 Bat.) Posterior foliaceous appendage lanceolate, expanding 

 laterally at the base : ears notched on their external margins. 



R. Ferrum-equinum, Flem. Brit. An. p. 5. R. unihastatus, Desm. Mam- 

 mal, p. 125. Horse-shoe Bat, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 147. pi. 14. 



DIMENS. Length of the head and body two inches five lines; of the 

 head eleven lines and a half; of the tail one inch two lines and a half; 

 of the ears nine lines ; breadth of the ears six lines; length of the thumb 

 two lines and a half: extent of wing thirteen inches. 



DESCRIPT. Upper incisors Very small, separated from each other by a 

 space ; lower incisors each with three lobes : ears nearly as long as the 

 head, somewhat triangular, broad at the base, terminating upwards in an 



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