8 PRIMATES. THE BAT TRIBE. 



touch each other over the nose, and thus conceal the upper part of 

 the face: towards their lower part they are angulated. Inner valves 

 conspicuous. Cheeks hairy, and full or turgid. Muzzle very short: 

 nose much flattened. Eyes so situated as to be within the bases of 

 the ears. No teeth immediately in front of either jaw. 



Fur of the upper parts of the body much longer than below, and 

 of a blackish brown oolour. Fur of the belly of a mixed grey and 

 brown. W.B. 



A single individual was caught in one of the gunpowder-mills, at 

 Dartford, in Kent. 



Vespertilio caudatus, buccis elatis pilosis, auriculis mag- 

 nis inferius angulatis. Vespertilio barbastellus. Lynn. 

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



Vespertilio buccis barbatis, auriculis longioribus, frontem 

 tegentibus. Vespertilio barhastellus. Erxleben, Syst. 

 regn. animal, gen. 16, sp. 4, p. 140. 



Vespertilio Barbastellus. Barbastelle Bat. Turton, i. 

 p. 2.5. Kerr, p. 95. 



La Barbastelle. Buff. Sonn. xxv. p. 324, pi. 14, 

 fig. 3. 



Barbastelle Bat. Shaw's Gen. Zool. i. p. 133 Smel- 

 lieVBuffon, iv. p. 323, tab. 92, fig. 1. Sowerby's British 

 Miscellany, tab. 5. 



5. THE HORSE-SHOE BAT. Tailed ; on the nose a mem- 

 brane, somewhat resembling in shape a horse's shoe ; ears as 

 long as the head, without inner valves ; tail half the length 

 ofthe.body. Vespertilio fer rum equinum. Linn. 



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

 membranes J4 inches. The face, has a singular appearance, from a 

 me mbranaceous appendage, somewhat in form of a horse's shoe, which 

 surrounds the nose and uptper lip: this is pointed at the extremity, 

 and its lower part forms deep furrows on the nose, bordered by a 



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