PRIMATES. THE BAT TRIBE. 



THE BAT TRIBE. Teeth all erect, sharp pointed, 

 and situated near together: fore-toes or fingers lengthened., 

 and connected by membranes, which extend round the 

 posterior part of the body, and perform the office of wings. 

 VESPERTILIO. Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. genus 4. torn I. 

 p. 45. 



l.The COMMON BAT. Tailed; no membrane on the 

 nose, ears smaller than the head. Vespertilio murinus. 

 Linn. 



Length, to the tip of the tail, about 3 inches ; and breadth of the 

 expanded membranes 9 inches Weight from 120 to 160 grains. 

 Ears fr'ir lines in length, each having, in front, an inner valve, or 

 secondary ear, slender, pointed, and minute. Eyes so small as to ap- 

 pear like minute black points. No teeth immediately in front of the 

 upper jaw. 



Extremity of the muzzle blackish, and, on the upper part, almost 

 naked. Colour of the fur, which is very thick and soft, nearly the 

 same as that of the common mouse, but with a slightly reddish tinge. 

 Wing membranes semi-transparent, of a blackish colour, and naked. 

 Smell not fetid. W. B. 



Common in ruinous buildings. Flies about in shady lanes, &c. 

 during the evenings of summer and autumn. 



Vespertilio caudatus, naso oreque simplici, auriculis 

 capite minoribus. Vespertilio murinus. Linn. Syst. Nat. 

 Gmel. i. p. 48. 



Vespertilio naso oroque simplici 9 auriculis longitudine 

 capitis. Vespertilio murinus. Erxleben, Syst. regn. ani- 

 mal, gen. 16, sp. 2, p. 143. 



Vespertilio murinus. Common Bat. Kerr's Animal King- 

 dom, p. 94.- Turton i. p. 2. 



Vespertilio 



