PIPISTRELLE. 



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the bones of the wings and cranium indicating extreme 

 youth. We have compared young individuals of the 

 Pipistrelle with Leach's original specimen in the 

 British Museum, and find them identical. 



Dr. Schinz, in the first volume of his work on the 

 European Fauna, has described a small Bat under the 

 name of Vespertilio minutissimus , of which we have seen a 

 specimen. It is obviously the young of the Pipistrelle, 

 at a somewhat more advanced age than the one of which 

 the above figure is an illustration. 



