6 PRIMATES. THE BAT TRIBE. 



Common in ruinous buildings; and flies about in shady lanes, &c. 

 during the evenings of summer and autumn. 



Vesperlilio caudatus, ore nasoque simplici, auriculis du- 

 plicatisy capite majoribus. Vespertilio auritus. Linn. Syst. 

 Nat. Grael. i. p. 47. Erxleben, Syst. regn. animal, gen. 

 16, sp. 1, p. 141. 



Vespertilio auritus. Long-eared Bat. Turton i. p. 

 25. Kerr, p. 93. 



Vespertilio minor. Brisson. regn. animal, p. 226. 



Vespertilio vulgaris, auriculis duplicibus. Klein, quad, 

 desp. p. 61. 



Vespertilio auritus quaternis. Ruysch. theat. animal, 

 i. pa. 2, p. 34. 



Voreillar. Buff. Sonn. xxv. p. 320. pi. 13, fig. 4. 



L'ordllard. Cuv. Tab. Element, p. 104. 



Long-eared Bat. Penn. Brit. Zool. i. p. 147 3 tab. 40. 

 Shaw's Gen. Zool. i. p. 123, tab. 40. Bingley's Animal 

 Biography, 3d edit. i. p. 97. Smellie's Buffon, iv. p. 322, 

 tab. 90, fig. 2. 



Common Bat. Bradley's Phil. Account of the Works 

 of Nature, p. 122, tab. 13. 



Great-eared Bat. Speculum Linneanum, tab. 7. 



Long-eared English Bat. Edwards's Birds, tab. 201, 

 fig. 2. Bew. Quad. 5th edit. p. 512. 



3. THE NOCTULE OR GREAT BAT. Tailed, no mem- 

 brane on the nose, ears oval, with small inner valves. 

 Vespertilio noctula. Linn. 



Length, to the tip of the tail, about 5| inches; and breadth of the 

 expanded membranes, 14| inches. Head large. Nose slightly 

 bilobated. Ears short, broad, and rounded ; each with a small but 

 conspicuous inner valve. Shoulders broad and muscular ; and whole 



body. 



