GREAT BAT. 



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arque, et termine par une large tete, ou une espece de 

 paume." Nothing can be more correct than this discri- 

 mination, mutato nomine. 



Dimensions : 



Length of the head and body 

 ,, of the head .... 

 ,, of the tail . 

 ,, of the ears . 



Breadth of the ears 



Length of the tragus 



of the fore-arm . 



Inch. Lines. 



11 



10 



8 



H 



6 

 2 

 



Extent of the wings, 13 inches 8 lines to 14 inches and upwards. 



Dentition : 



F. M. : M. = 



The genus Scotophilus was established by Dr. Leach, 

 in a paper in the Linnaean Transactions, vol. xiii., and 

 adopted by Dr. Gray in the Magazine of Zoology and 

 Botany, vol. ii., 1838. 



