PRIMATES. THE BAT TRIBE. 7 



body plump and fleshy. Upper part of wing membranes slightly 

 hairy on the inside. No teeth immediately in front of the upper jaw. 



Fur extremely soft and Iseek ; in some individuals of a bright 

 chesnut colour, but in others considerably darker, so as even to be 

 cinereous. 



ITing membranes black. Smell fetid. W. B. 



Uncommon. Flies high in the air; and seldom seen except from 

 the beginning of May to about the end of July. It has been observed 

 in Hampshire, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, and Surrey. 



Vespertilio caudatus, naso oreque simplici^ auriculis 

 ovalibus operculatis, operculo exili. Vespertilio noctula. 

 Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. i. p. 48. 



Vespertilio naso oreque simplici, auriculis capite brevi- 

 oribusy corpore cano. Vespertilio noctula. Erxleben, 

 Syst. regn. animal, gen. 16, sp. 3, p. 146. 



Vespertilio noctula. Great Bat. Turton i. p. 25. 

 Kerr, p. 95. 



La Noctule. Buff. Sonn. xxv. p. 321, pi. 14, f. 1. 

 Cuv. Tab. Element, p. 105. 



Noctule Bat. Shaw's Gen. Zool. i. p. ISO.Kerr's 

 anim. King. p. 95. Smellie's Buffon, iv. p. 322, tab. 91, 

 fig.l. 



Great Bat. Penn. Brit. Zool. i. p. 146. T-- White's 

 Works, i. p. 130. 



4. THE BARBASTELLE BAT. Tailed, cheeks full or 

 turgid, and bearded, ears large and angulated at the lower 

 part. Vespertilio barbastellus. Linn. 



Length, to the tip of the tail about 2 inches; and breadth of the 

 expanded membranes 10 inches. On the upper part of the muzzle 

 a naked, hollow, or sunken mark, of singular shape, which extends 

 to the ears, and in front of which are situated the nostrils. Ears 

 large, rounded at the extremity, and so broad that their inner edges 



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